Vital Systems

What Communities Need to Know about Local Food Security

Community representatives overseeing local food systems and security represent the “long-view” of sustainable systems. They could be local Community Development Corporate board members (CDC), land trust educators, government agency representatives (such NOAA fisheries), land grant university professors, local USDA representatives, or land-based learning representatives.

For current reference materials, please see:

• California Agricultural Vision: Strategies for Sustainability
• Sustaining Our Agricultural Bounty: An Assessment of the Current State of Farming and Ranching in the San Francisco Bay Area