Planning for Food Systems Resilience

This session will provide planners with the knowledge, tools, and case studies to help them build a more resilient food system. It will highlight a resource developed by John Hopkins University to help jurisdictions get started with or advance their food system resilience planning. The ECFRPC will discuss methods and data sources that could be used to assess a region’s food production system including the identification of community assets, the development of metrics, and identification of vulnerabilities that need to be addressed in order to improve resiliency. Little Growers, a grassroots community-based organization located in a historically unincorporated African American community, will discuss its efforts to build a localized green economy that provides jobs and ownership opportunities to the area’s residents while investing in building health, wealth, and community resilience. It will also focus on how it isi building collaborations to develop a Food Entrepreneurship and Climate Resilience Plan for the community. This document will identify the best ways to harness the community’s people, economic, and place-based assets in order to generate new jobs and economic opportunities for the area’s residents. Finally,KC Healthty Kids will discuss its efforts to develop a climate action plan with its food policy coalition.