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Food Planning
Areas of Practice - Food Planning - AICP November 2022 Test
Term | Definition |
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Community Food Systems | a food system in which food production, processing, distribution and consumption are integrated to enhance the environment, economic, social and nutrition health of a particular place. |
Interest in Food focus in APA | "among the basic essentials for life - air, water, shelter and food - only food has been absent over the years as a focus of serious professional planning interest" |
Food security | |
proximity | where people live and how they access food |
food deserts | an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food: "many poor people live in food deserts—where they have plenty of food but none of it healthy" |
Food Policy Council | 25 states have these. Address food deserts, obesity rates among children, loss of ag land |