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Farm-to-School

Strategies for Urban Health, Combating Sprawl, and Establishing a Community Food Systems Approach

Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College

Robert Gottlieb

Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College

Margaret Ann Haase

Center for Food and Justice at the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College

Farm-to-school is a new, innovative strategy with multiple planning-related objectives. The article evaluates the significance of farm-to-school in relation to improving the health and nutrition of school-age children, particularly low-income youth; strengthening the capacity of local farmers, particularly those engaged in sustainable practices; adding to the toolkit of strategies designed to contain and ultimately reduce sprawl-inducing developments by helping preserve farmland; and helping establish a community food systems approach no longer entirely dependent on the global food system that has come to dominate food growing, processing, distribution, and consumption patterns around the world.

Key Words: farm-to-school • nutrition • farmland loss • sprawl • community food systems

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