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Collaboration and diverse stakeholder participation in food system planning: a case study from Central New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2018

Evan Weissman  and
Matthew Potteiger
Evan Weissman*
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Syracuse University, 540 White Hall, Syracuse, New York13244, USA
Matthew Potteiger
Affiliation:
Department of Landscape Architecture, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, New York, USA
*
Author for correspondence: Evan Weissman, Tel: 315.443.4295 E-mail: eweissma@syr.edu
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Abstract

The Onondaga County Agriculture Council was created in 2012 to promote and support the county's farms, improve the connections between the county's urban core of Syracuse and the surrounding agricultural areas, and to develop policy to support agricultural production and food system development. In short, the purpose of the Council is to strengthen the Onondaga County food system. This goal, however, is ambiguous and Council members recognized a limited understanding of the current structure and function of the Central New York (CNY) food system. As such, the Council provided support for FoodPlanCNY, a project designed to identify food system assets and opportunities to strengthen the economic opportunities, public health outcomes and environmental sustainability of the CNY food system. This paper reports preliminary findings from this initial effort to engage participatory food system planning in CNY.

Keywords

Asset-based approachdiverse stakeholdersfood assessmentfood planninggovernance
Type
From the Field
Information
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 115 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018

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