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Areas of Focus
Living Wages | Leadership Training | Local Food Systems | Malnutrition, Diet, Disease, and Education | Sustainable Livelihoods | Rural Farming Communities | Natural Resource Conservation | Economic Development | Environmental Health | Food Supply | Farm Ecosystem Management | Agricultural Water Conservation and Management | Business Firm and Organization Sustainability | Culture and Sustainability | Conservation and the Commons | Community Enterprise | Ecological Economics | Landscape Ecology | Agricultural Policy | Hunger and Food Security | Agroecology | Sustainable Communities | Sustainable Urban and Regional Planning | Water Supply and Conservation | Watershed Management | Biodiversity Conservation | Rural Development | Food Literacy | Organic Farming | Sustainable Agriculture | Gardening | Land Use Policy | Public Health | Worker Health and Safety | Environmental Law and Policy | Climate Change | Sustainable Production | Land Stewardship
About
This group supports the entire network of the California food system in creating a sustainable food system for the state by 2030. This site provides tools for all the different players in the CA system to learn from each other, connect, and collaborate - allowing individual efforts to join forces in moving the whole system towards sustainability.
What is the food system?
The idea of a sustainable food system takes the concept of ‘sustainable agriculture’ and expands it beyond the farm to include the rest of the food chain, from farmers and ranchers, to distributors, to schools, to supermarkets, to eaters, and beyond. All parts of the system, not just agriculture, must be made sustainable. Linking the different parts of the system together can support the overall movement of the whole system towards sustainability. The natural resources of land and water are the foundation for this system.
Who is in the food system?
Everyone who touches food in the state is connected to the food system – so, if you eat you are part of this system.
There are different levels of involvement in the system – the most connected level is the food chain, those who handle food directly. This includes: producers, processors and manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, food outlets (including retail, restaurants, and any place food is served), waste management, food and farm labor, and eaters.
The next level includes the supporting industries: health, gardening, finance, tourism, food product/service providers, carbon trading, planners, and developers, and more.
The third level are the influencers, which are individuals or organizations that monitor, support, enhance, protect, catalyze or make public policy affecting the food chain or the supporting industries. This includes: environmental advocates, social justice and labor advocates, rural community advocates, policy makers, faith based organizations, cultural commentators, economic development agencies, health and nutrition advocates, food access advocates, university research and development, consumer rights advocates, environmental monitoring agencies, and more.
What is the food system?
The idea of a sustainable food system takes the concept of ‘sustainable agriculture’ and expands it beyond the farm to include the rest of the food chain, from farmers and ranchers, to distributors, to schools, to supermarkets, to eaters, and beyond. All parts of the system, not just agriculture, must be made sustainable. Linking the different parts of the system together can support the overall movement of the whole system towards sustainability. The natural resources of land and water are the foundation for this system.
Who is in the food system?
Everyone who touches food in the state is connected to the food system – so, if you eat you are part of this system.
There are different levels of involvement in the system – the most connected level is the food chain, those who handle food directly. This includes: producers, processors and manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, food outlets (including retail, restaurants, and any place food is served), waste management, food and farm labor, and eaters.
The next level includes the supporting industries: health, gardening, finance, tourism, food product/service providers, carbon trading, planners, and developers, and more.
The third level are the influencers, which are individuals or organizations that monitor, support, enhance, protect, catalyze or make public policy affecting the food chain or the supporting industries. This includes: environmental advocates, social justice and labor advocates, rural community advocates, policy makers, faith based organizations, cultural commentators, economic development agencies, health and nutrition advocates, food access advocates, university research and development, consumer rights advocates, environmental monitoring agencies, and more.