Read up on lessons learned and guides to cut through the red tape for local food policy change. Search reports or listen in to a webinar or podcast to get your gears turning.

Reports:

Cutting Through the Red Tape: A Resource Guide for Local Food Policy Practitioners & Organizers. Beth Sanders and Annie Shattuck, Food First Policy Brief no. 19, December 2011.

Democracy in Action: Food Policy Councils. Food First Backgrounder, October 2009.

Doing Food Policy Councils Right: A guide to development and action. Michael Burgan and Mark Winne, November 2012.

Food Policy Councils: Lessons Learned. Alethea Harper, Alison Alkon, Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Gimenez and Frances Lambrick. Food First Development Report, December 2009.

Good Laws, Good Food: Putting Local Food Policy to Work for Our Communities. The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic with Mark Winne, July 2012.

Good Laws, Good Food: Putting State Food Policy to Work for Our Communities. The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic with Mark Winne, November 2012.

Model Healthy Food System Resolution. National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), ChangeLab Solutions, 2013.

 

Webinar:

Policies From The Field: Mark Winne discusses Food Policy Council
Mark Winne, renowned author and food policy consultant, discusses his Policies from the Field paper with Sustain Ontario.

 

Podcast:

Tagan Engel, Chair of the New Haven Food Policy Council, Discusses Food Insecurity In New Haven

 

Infographic:

via Sudbury Food Policy Council

 

Updated 12/2014