Abstract
Food system planning is an emerging field engaging planners and planning organizations, civic leaders, citizens, food policy councils, and others interested in creating more sustainable food systems. Planning practices are being developed to address the complex soil-to-soil food system, which spans production to consumption to reuse and recycling of waste. Community engagement is critical to fostering interactions within the full spectrum of food system stakeholders — from farmers and ranchers to planners and local officials to individual and institutional consumers. A growing body of assessment tools is being developed to inform this process. As most of these tools are relatively new, there is little research that addresses the different methodologies or evaluates their use as planning tools. This paper outlines a variety of approaches and suggests further research to evaluate their efficacy.
Highlights
Food system planning is an emerging field that engages citizens, food policy councils, planning professionals, civic officials, and others interested in creating more sustainable food systems
Different tools can help diverse interests develop plans and policies to achieve their goals. With their interdisciplinary systems training and cross-sectoral work, planners are well suited to work with communities and multiple stakeholders to build sustainable food systems that address all of these interests together
A variety of assessment tools have been used in recent years that bring food system and planning professionals together to establish a baseline of information and set goals for comprehensive food system planning efforts
Summary
Submitted 29 April 2011 / Accepted 28 October 2011 / Published online 23 December 2011.
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