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Education
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food security
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Community
Food Security Assessment Toolkit
A
toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various
aspects of community food security. It includes a general guide
to community assessment and focused materials for examining
six basic assessment components related to community food security.
These include guides for profiling general community characteristics
and community food resources as well as materials for assessing
household food security, food resource accessibility, food availability
and affordability, and community food production resources.
Data collection tools include secondary data sources, focus
group guides, and a food store survey instrument. It is designed
for use by community-based nonprofit organizations and business
groups, local government officials, private citizens, and community
planners.
Contact:
Economic
Research Service
1800 M Street NW
Washington, DC
20036-5831 USA
Web: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/efan02013/
(PDF available)
Edible
Connections - Changing the Way We Talk About Food,
Farm, and Community
A
Planning Guide and Video for Conducting a Food Communications
Forum Edible Connections, a food communications
forum, has been developed as a model to bring together,
perhaps for the first time, the public, the media,
and many food system stakeholders who are connected
to each other and their communities through the
medium of food and agriculture. The intent of this
resource is to support locally-initiated educational
efforts to stimulate discussion about food and fiber
issues important at the community level. The guide
is organized to help local groups define the objectives
of the forum, plan it, and carry it out. It also
comes with a videotape that illustrates the six
elements of an Edible Connections forum. A planning
time line and budget worksheet are included in the
Appendices as additional tools.
Contact:
Publication
Distribution Center
The
Pennsylvania State University
112
Agricultural Administration Bldg.
University
Park, PA 96802
Phone:
877-345-0691
Web: http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/EdibleConnections.html
Emergency
Food Programs in Berkeley
This
comprehensive guide compiled by Berkeley Information
Network / Alameda County Community Food Bank provides
a list of all the emergency food programs in Berkeley,
their locations, types of programs, and services
each offers.
Contact:
Web: http://www.berkeleyfood.org/resource/foodprog.htm
Food
Security Action Resources (USDA, FSN)
A
USDA FNS site that provides information, tools and materials designed
to assist communities and organizations in their efforts to improve
community and household food security.
Contact:
Web: http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsec
The
Food Stamp Nutrition Connection
A
resource system that helps educators find the tools and information
they need to provide quality nutrition education for low-income
audiences. It is developed by the National Agricultural Library's
Food and Nutrition Information Center and the University of Maryland
in collaboration with USDA's Food and Nutrition Service. The website
offers information on training, educational materials, and food
and health related topics.
Contact:
Food and Nutrition
Information Center
National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 105
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
Phone: (301) 504-5719
E-mail:
FSNC@nal.usda.gov
Web: http://www.nal.usda.gov/foodstamp
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The
Food System: Building Youth Awareness through Involvement
Guidebook
for parents and educators of youth in grades 4 through
12 who are enrolled in 4-H clubs or other youth
programs. The guidebook introduces educators and
youth to the concept of the food system, emphasizing
interactive learning, skill building and using the
community as a classroom. Topics covered food system
inputs and outputs; food production, transformation,
and distribution; food access and consumption; and
sustaining the local food supply.
Contact:
Publication
Distribution Center
The
Pennsylvania State University
112
Agricultural Administration Bldg.
University
Park, PA 96802
Phone:
877-345-0691
Web: http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/EdibleConnections.html
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Hunger
in Your State: A guide for producing state-level reports
This
pdf file (1.7 Mb) contains the basic data and guidance
for producing hunger reports for each state in the nation.
Contact:
Oregon
Center for Public Policy
First
Street, Suite C
PO
Box 7
Silverton,
OR 97381
Phone: 503-873-1201
Fax:
503-873-1974
Web: http://www.ocpp.org/2002/rpt021114.pdf
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The
Kids Food Cyberclub
This
website created by the Connecticut Association for Human
Services is a nutrition education program that combines
the web site with classroom activities to help students
learn about food and nutrition and its relationship
to health. It also includes hunger and food security
topics. The site includes a section for "kids only,"
lessons plans for teachers, and activities and links
for parents.
Contact:
Connecticut
Association for Human Services
110 Bartholomew Avenue, Suite 4030
Hartford CT 06106-2201
Phone: (860) 951-2212
Fax:
(860) 951-6511
E-mail:
info@cahs.org
Web: http://www.kidfood.org/index.html
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Know
Hunger
A
high school curriculum published by the Gerda & Kurt Klein
Foundation. The curriculum offers a parallel program of community
service to enable youth to help end hunger in their communities.
The complete curriculum can be used online or downloaded free
of charge!
Contact:
Center on
Hunger and Poverty
Asset Development Institute Food Security Institute
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Mailstop 077
Phone: 781-736-8885
Fax: 781-736-3925
E-mail: hunger@brandeis.edu
Web: http://www.knowhunger.org/
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Urban
Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United
States: Farming from the City Center To the Urban Fringe
Prepared
by the Urban Agriculture Committee of the Community
Food Security Coalition, February, 2002 (30 pp). Principal
Author: Katherine H. Brown ; Contributors: Martin Bailkey,
Alison Meares-Cohen, Joe Nasr, Jac Smit, Terri Buchanan;
Editor: Peter Mann.This document raises awareness of
the ways that urban agriculture can respond to food
insecurity. The guide outlines key policy changes that
can further expand the effectiveness of urban agriculture.
Contact:
Web: http://www.foodsecurity.org/urbanagpaper.pdf
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