HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL-8-19-09-FINAL.pdf, is a brand new new report by PolicyLink, the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food
Systems at Michigan State University, and the Fair Food Network.about food systems and food distribution in Oakland, CA, where I live, and in Detroit, a city that is both falling apart and trying to reinvent the urban future.
As someone who has mapped Oakland's food systems for herself--all the farmer's markets, all the food pantries, all the supermarkets, the coops, etc. I can tell you that not only do we have food deserts here--not that much has changed in much of the city since this topic became an issue in 2004. This new report--which I am reading now--offers up to the minute documentation and details. The report also proposes solutions, including
- Developing or attracting new neighborhood grocery stores
- Expanding local food production through urban farms and community gardens
- Enabling the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at farmers' markets
- Establishing food policy councils, as Oakland is now doing
- Linking low-income residents to jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities in food businesses
More to come on this.
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