The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition has been highlighted in a study published through the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention which examines the policy development process and investigates FPC's role in developing and implementing four different pieces of legislation. See the abstract below or click here to view the full study.
Submitted by Nico Boyd on November 25, 2014 - 12:39pm
Anyone who is familiar with the local food movement in northeast Ohio has probably heard mention of a group called Growhio at least a few times. For those unfamiliar with Growhio, the organization developed out of the City of Cleveland’s Sustainable Cleveland 2019 summit in 2009 with the goal of serving as a meta-brand for local food in northeast Ohio and uniting isolated partners within the local food movement.... Read more »
Submitted by Nico Boyd on October 21, 2014 - 3:08pm
Major changes could be coming to one Cleveland neighborhood seeking to enhance community self-sufficiency by changing livestock zoning laws. Last week, Lakewood City Council’s Housing Committee resolved three issues regarding legislation that would create a pilot program to allow residents to raise hens in their backyards.... Read more »
Submitted by Nico Boyd on October 21, 2014 - 2:59pm
A recent study from Finance Fund highlights the need for a statewide financing program in Ohio that would encourage the development of healthy food retail in the communities that need it most.... Read more »
Submitted by Morgan Taggart on August 25, 2014 - 1:16pm
The City of Cleveland and FPC have released the findings from the Sustainable Foods Business Cluster Roadmap - a five-year plan with a core objective to increase regional jobs, revenue and sustainability by supporting local food and beverage businesses. The roadmap takes a closer look at the food business cluster as a 'geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions' all related in some way to the food industry.... Read more »
Submitted by Anonymous on November 13, 2013 - 11:34am
At the beginning of this month, Mother Jones published an article on four foods that could be difficult (if not impossible) to easily buy and consume if the new proposed food safety rules of the Federal Food Safety and Modernization Act pass.... Read more »
Submitted by Anonymous on November 4, 2013 - 3:19pm
Food hubs often encompass all or several of the missing link(s) necessary to better faciliate the process of bringing local foods from farm to fork. I like to think of them as the physical places that are home to every "sticky point" in the food economy or the critical components of the food system (production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption, waste).... Read more »
Submitted by Morgan Taggart on September 13, 2013 - 1:40pm
FPC in partnership with the City of Cleveland’s Office of Sustainability will be working with Bush Consulting of Salem, Ohio to complete an analysis and roadmap of the food business cluster in Northeast Ohio with a focus on Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. Brookings Institution defines clusters as "geographic concentrations of interconnected businesses, suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a particular sector." After a competitive review process by a selection committee... Read more »
"Filmed in Appalachian Ohio, a region all-too-familiar with the boom and bust cycles of an extractive economy, Network Theory features six agrarian entrepreneurs who weave open, collaborative networks to create a community-based food economy.... Read more »
Submitted by Anonymous on August 19, 2013 - 10:49am
Members of diverse community organizations met earlier this month on a sunny August morning to discuss the expansion of school gardening at Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) schools.... Read more »
