The document discusses improving food security in Asheville and Buncombe County through the efforts of the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council. It outlines issues like food insecurity, causes like food deserts, and opportunities to address poverty, public health, local commerce and sustainability. Potential policies are proposed in areas like planning, parks, schools, economic development and emergency response to increase access to affordable, healthy local food. Collaboration with community stakeholders is emphasized to create a more food secure future.
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#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture#
By SN Panigrahi
Government of India is giving more priority for welfare of the farmers. In this regard it is implementing several farmers welfare schemes to revitalize agriculture sector and to improve their economic conditions. Therefore, the government has rolled out new initiatives, schemes, programs and plans to benefit all the farmers.
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#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture# By SN PanigrahiSN Panigrahi, PMP
#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture#
By SN Panigrahi
Government of India is giving more priority for welfare of the farmers. In this regard it is implementing several farmers welfare schemes to revitalize agriculture sector and to improve their economic conditions. Therefore, the government has rolled out new initiatives, schemes, programs and plans to benefit all the farmers.
This presentation is all about highlighting present scenario of food security in India and the Issues and challenges it is facing. Furthermore, some of the pragmatic measures have been given so as to make India a food secure nation.
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This chapter is intended to ensure that students understand why agricultural policies are needed in both developing and developed countries. It will also shed light on the major forces that cause policy change, reasons for government involvement in agriculture and the place of agricultural policies in the future.
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A food secure population can meet its consumption needs during the given consumption period by using strategies that do not compromise future food security
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
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1. The Future of Food in
Asheville & Buncombe County
Addressing Poverty, Public Health, Local
Commerce and Sustainability through Food
Security
2. Food Security
The world health organization defines food
security as existing “when all people at all times
have access to sufficient, safe nutritious food to
maintain a healthy and active life”
3. Regional Food Security
• 14 of Buncombe County’s 15 ZIP codes contain a food
outlet of some sort yet 1 out of 6 people in WNC
experience food insecurity
• 27% increase in county residents receiving food
assistance in 2010
• 50% of students within Buncombe County School
system were enrolled in the free and reduced lunch
program during 2009-2010 year, up from 47% the
previous year
4. Problems associated with Food
Insecurity
•Impaired mental and physical development in
young children
•Food insecure children are 90% more likely to be
in fair or poor health than food secure children
•A poorly prepared and uncompetitive work force
•Family and personal instability, where
uncertainness over “the next meal” creates a
roadblock to dealing with other problems
5. Causes of Food Insecurity
•“Food Deserts”-areas that do not have a
convenient, affordable, healthy food source
nearby, or full scale grocery store
•High prices for healthy food even when it is
available
•Inadequate cooking education and nutrition
information
•Limited public awareness on the necessity and
accessibility of affordable, healthy food
•The availability of Local sustainable food to the
population
6. Asheville/Buncombe Food Policy
Council
Mission: will identify and propose
innovative solutions to improve local
food systems, spurring local economic
development and making food systems
environmentally sustainable and
socially just.
7. Community Stakeholders
Manna, Children First, Bountiful Cities,
Asheville Housing Authority, Green
Opportunities, Mountain Housing
Opportunities, Advantage West, Mission
Hospital, NC Health & Wellness Center,
Healthy Buncombe, Office of Heath Shuler,
Chamber of Commerce, ASAP
8. Community Stakeholders
Asheville Independent Restaurant
Association, Pioneering Healthy
Communities, Rainbow in my Tummy, Slow
Food Asheville, Council on Aging, Jewish
Community Center, YWCA, ABCCM, WNCA,
Transition Asheville, Interfaith Group
9. Community Stakeholders
NC Cooperative Extension, AB-Tech, UNC
Asheville, Warren Wilson, Asheville City
School Foundation, Land of Sky, Just
Economics, Youth for Empowered Solutions,
Women’s Wellbeing Fund, Homeward
Bound, Mountain Valley Resource
Conservation, French Broad Food
Cooperative, and many individuals and
businesses.
10. Opportunities to a Food
Secure community
We have enormous opportunities regarding
our community’s commitment to ensuring a
stable, healthy, and affordable food supply.
Food security encompasses issues of
poverty, public health, local commerce, and
sustainability.
11. Improving Food security
•Local food is a simple, convenient, and
powerful tool to achieve food security
•Local food is reliably healthy and beneficial
to the economy
• Local food increases access and
affordability of fruits and vegetables
12. Improving food security
infrastructure
•If the food and farm economy were expanded in
WNC an additional $200 to $300 million would be
spent on locally sourced food within the region
•Expanding could increase employment
opportunities
•Local food expansion could address poverty,
public health, commerce, and sustainability within
any community or region
13. Some cities that have passed
local food policies
Balitmore, Philadelphia, Seattle, San
Francisco, Bloomington, Cleveland,
Milwaukee, Nashville, NYC, Chicago,
Portland, Oakland, Minneapolis,
Detroit, Providence, Kansas City,
Austin, Santa Monica, Denver, Ann
Arbor, Santa Fe
14. Potential policies:
Planning/Land Use
- Identify arable city-owned land and issue
an RFP for organic, GMO-free food
production, with a focus on Permaculture.
-- Modify zoning rules to allow increased
food production – greenhouses, gardens.
- Home-based cottage industries allowance
for small-scale, value-added products.
-UDO allowances for innovative methods of
production (aquaculture, vertical farming,
rooftop gardens, etc.).
- Identify barriers to food production in
residential neighborhoods and seek
remedies.
15. Potential Policies:
Parks, Recreation
-Utilize parks to grow food and have
community programming regarding health,
nutrition, and gardening.
- Edible and medicinal landscaping in all
public parks and rights of way.
- Partnership with gleaning organizations to
distribute produce from edible trees, plants
in parks and rights of way.
- Liability waiver for volunteers helping to
tend food production in parks. Make it easier
for grassroots efforts to happen.
16. Potential Policies:
Community Development
- Utilize community centers for farmers’ markets
and CSA distribution.
- Encourage food distribution in underserved
communities by establishing market areas in each
neighborhood, based on neighborhood
preferences.
-Seek incentives for food distributors in food
deserts.
- Allocate funds to non-profits involved in food
security efforts.
- Encourage mobile markets for low-income
communities, especially those in food deserts.
17. Potential Policies:
Schools
- Identifying qualifying students who aren’t
enrolled in free and reduced lunch.
- Prioritize local, fresh foods in cafeterias.
- For qualifying students – identifying needs
outside of school for food, expand on “summer
feeding sites”.
- Partner with Parks/Rec to provide feeding sites
(would also increase participation with Parks/Rec
initiatives). Other partners might include AB Tech,
AIR DINER, GO, MANNA, Salvation Army, and
Meals on Wheels.
18. Potential Policies:
Economic Development
- Seek grant opportunities for food production,
processing, and distribution.
- Recruit businesses focused on food processing and
distribution in identified food deserts.
- Incentivize food system development particularly in
regard to processing.
- Encourage home-based cottage industries for small-
scale, value-added products.
- Incent innovative methods of production
(aquaculture, vertical farming, rooftop gardens, etc.).
-Provide incentives for local restaurants and food
trucks to participate in the NC Cooperative Extension’s
10% campaign. Ideas include the city providing
advertising on public transit for participating
businesses.
19. Potential Policies:
Emergency
-Initiate a "Resilient Neighborhoods" program, i.e.
assist neighbors in putting together knowledge
and goods that would help them in the event of a
shortage of food.
- Ensure fuel availability to food producers,
processors, and distributors in the event of an
extended fuel shortage.
20. Potential Policies:
Other
- Replace contents of city vending machines with
healthy food choices.
- Implement CSA program for City Employees.
- Utilize local, healthy foods in city commissary.
- Investigate the potential for a citywide
composting program alongside trash and recycling
with a central point for community access to
compost.
-Support community gardens and urban
agriculture through resolutions.
21. Goals of the council
•Improve food sustainability within the region
•Coordinate production and distribution to
increase efficiency
•Expand food education
•Improve land usage
•Increase access of healthier food options
22. Collaboration & Partnerships
Food systems cross governmental and geographic
lines, and only by partnering with others can we
take the necessary steps to create a food secure
future.
Asheville will work with all of our partners to
ensure that food policies integrate sustainably with
others’ efforts, plans, and visions.
23. Resources/Information
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND INFORMATION: The Asheville Buncombe
Food Policy Council website is here: http://abfoodpolicy.com/
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project has a great deal of research and
information at their website: http://www.asapconnections.org/
MANNA Food Bank has hunger facts here:
http://mannafoodbank.org/hunger-in-western-north-carolina/
In June 2010, the American Dietetic Association, American Nurses Association,
American Planning Association, and American Public Health Association food
system principles -
http://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/pdf/HealthySustainableFoodSystemsPrinciples
The Food Research and Action Center produced a paper and listed key goals of
President Obama’s effort to reduce childhood hunger -
http://frac.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/endingchildhunger_2015paper.pdf