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Growing Food Connections Launches Website to Train Communities across the U.S. in Food Systems Planning by Growing Food Connections

Thursday, February 6, 2014 15:14
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Growing Food Connections, a research, planning and outreach initiative to strengthen community food systems across the United States, has launched www.GrowingFoodConnections.org as a resource repository for communities looking to broaden access to healthy food and sustain their local farms and food producers through public policy.

Led by the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo in partnership with Cultivating Healthy PlacesOhio State University and American Farmland Trust, Growing Food Connections (GFC) will target 10 “Communities of Opportunity” – communities poised to tackle their food access challenges and agricultural viability – with an intensive program of education, training, technical assistance and extension activities.

Read more here  http://growingfoodconnections.org/news-item/gfc-website-launch/

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