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Local Food Initiatives: Assets, Benefits & Challenges in SE North Carolina

Local Food Initiatives: Assets, Benefits & Challenges in SE North Carolina. CIRA Local Food Systems Collaboration/UNC-CH : Dorothy Holland Center for Community Action: Mac Legerton Dept of City & Regional Planning Workshop Course on Economic Development: Sara Safransky & Zoe Hamstead.

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Local Food Initiatives: Assets, Benefits & Challenges in SE North Carolina

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  1. Local Food Initiatives:Assets, Benefits & Challenges in SE North Carolina CIRA Local Food Systems Collaboration/UNC-CH: Dorothy Holland Center for Community Action: Mac Legerton Dept of City & Regional Planning Workshop Course on Economic Development: Sara Safransky & Zoe Hamstead

  2. Local Food Initiatives:Assets, Benefits & Challenges in SE North Carolina CIRA Local Food Systems Collaboration

  3. CIRA: NC Sustainable Development & Persistent Poverty Project SD/ACJSC/BRWIA CIRA- UNC CCT CCA Locations of Regional Partners CCA = Center for Community Action (Southeast) CCT = Concerned Citizens of Tillery (Northeast) SD/ACJSC = ASU Sustainable Development Program/Appalachian Coalition for Just and Sustainable Communities/Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (Northwest)

  4. Local food production & consumption: Source of local income Means of making higher quality food available to economically poor people Avenue to better diets/health in low-wealth areas.

  5. CIRA COLLABORATION: 2006 ConferenceSustainable Development and Poverty Reduction

  6. CIRA COLLABORATION: 2006 ConferenceSustainable Development & Poverty Reduction

  7. SE (Lumberton) 9/06 NE (Tillery) 1/07 **narrowed focus to rebuilding local food systems WEST (Boone) 3/07 CIRA COLLABORATION: 06-07Quarterly Meetings

  8. CIRA COLLABORATION: 2007 ConferenceRebuilding Local Food Systems Keynote speaker: Deborah Webb, Community Farm Alliance, KY * Diana Lee facilitates discussions

  9. CIRA COLLABORATION: 07-08Quarterly Meetings • Lumberton 10/07 • Tillery 2/08 • Boone 5/08 • 08 Conference: TBD Possible topics: Food initiatives & Economic Development? Universities & institutional buying?

  10. Cross-Region Collaboration Model Curricular Model TWO TYPES OF UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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