Food Systems

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Many ecovillages and intentional communities have a major focus on food production for self-consumption, and that is often combined with some kinds of businesses that are engaged in combinations of food-related businesses, including education about food production techniques. This subject matter is divided in these categories:

• Food Preservation and Storage
• Food Production (growing food)
• Food Safety
• Food Waste Reduction
• Soil-building practices
• Food-related Businesses

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• Agricultural Sustainaability Institute: https://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/infas
• National Food Policy Network. https://www.foodpolicynetworks.org/
• Research about regional food systems plans. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/participatory-state-and-regional-food-system-plans-and-charters-in-the-us
  • Report on Food System Planning Landscape Analysis: https://transforminghawaiifoodsystem.org/landscape-analysis/
• United Nations Food Systems Hub: https://www.unfoodsystemshub.org/
  • https://www.unfoodsystemshub.org/docs/unfoodsystemslibraries/default-document-library/UN-FS-Hub-Work-Plan-2024-2026.pdf
  • UNSDG#2: No Hunger. https://sdgs.un.org/topics/food-security-and-nutrition-and-sustainable-agriculture