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General Policy

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  • Community Tool Box: “The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision. We provide educational modules and tools to help people work together to make their communities what they dream they can be. Although the Community Tool Box has thousands of pages of resources, its design makes it easy to find what you want.” 
  • Growing Food Connections: The overarching goal of this partnership is to enhance community food security while ensuring sustainable and economically viable agriculture and food production. This requires building the capacity of local governments to remove public policy barriers and deploy innovative public policy tools. 
  • Healthy Food Access Portal:  Contains resources to help with the planning and implementation of policies and programs aimed at helping low income and minority populations’ access healthy food.  
  • Healthy Food Policy Project:  The Healthy Food Policy Project (HFPP) identifies and elevates local laws that seek to promote access to healthy food, and also contribute to strong local economies, an improved environment, and health equity, with a focus on socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups. This website can help healthy food advocates, local policy makers, and local public health 
  • Roadmap for City Food Sector Innovation and Investment: “Roadmap for City Food Sector Innovation and Investment,” the report demonstrates how cities can develop a sound local food investment strategy and how to select the best investment opportunities. It also includes a selection of municipal policies and initiatives to support local food entrepreneurs and businesses.”