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Browse 100+ resources on food systems law and policy.
Innovative Production
This fact sheet distills the information in the Innovative Production section of “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy” into key takeaways for producers and policymakers.
Topic: Urban Agriculture Audience: Farmers, PolicymakersSoil Health and Composting
This fact sheet distills the information in the Soil Health and Composting section of “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy” into key takeaways for producers and policymakers.
Topic: Urban Agriculture Audience: Farmers, PolicymakersWater Access
This fact sheet distills the information in the Water Access section of “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy” into key takeaways for producers and policymakers.
Topic: Urban Agriculture Audience: Farmers, PolicymakersCity Governance and Public Funding
This fact sheet distills the information in the City Governance and Public Funding section of “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy” into key takeaways for producers and policymakers.
Topic: Urban Agriculture Audience: Farmers, PolicymakersZoning and Land Use
This fact sheet distills the information in the Zoning and Land Use section of “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy” into key takeaways for producers and policymakers.
Topic: Urban Agriculture Audience: Farmers, PolicymakersLand Access
This fact sheet distills the information in the Land Access section of “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy” into key takeaways for producers and policymakers.
Topic: Urban Agriculture Audience: Community Organizations, Farmers, PolicymakersUrban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy
This guide highlights how local governments across the U.S. are shaping laws and regulations that impact urban farms, community gardens, and innovative food producers. The guide explores key topics—land access, zoning and land use, city governance, water access, soil health, and innovative production—to assess common challenges farmers and gardeners face and offer concrete strategies, city highlights, and takeaways for both policymakers and producers.
Topic: Farmland Access, Healthy Food Access, Urban Agriculture Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersZoning for Urban Agriculture
This guide includes a range of examples from cities across the country showing how zoning can support urban agriculture and provides action steps for changing zoning laws to better support urban agriculture.
Topic: Farmland Access, Healthy Food Access, Urban Agriculture Audience: Community Organizations, Growers, Policymakers, ResearchersGrowing Food Where You Live
This resource discusses the different legal obstacles to growing food for those who rent their home, lease the land they live on, or live in common interest communities, and provides examples of local laws that support growing food where you live.
Topic: Healthy Food Access, Urban Agriculture Audience: Community Organizations, ResearchersHow Fort Worth, TX, Is Using Urban Farming to Improve Healthy Food Access & Economic Development
This case study explains how Fort Worth passed an urban agriculture ordinance to allow urban farming, including aquaponics inside a covered structure, in all zoning districts, as a way to improve access to healthy food.
Topic: Healthy Food Access, Urban Agriculture Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersPrince George’s County Food Equity Council
This case study discusses how the Prince George's County Food Equity Council pursued multiple policies to address inequities in the food system associated with food swamps and how they uplifted communities' voices in their work.