Food Access

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Planning for Equity in a Local Context: Case Studies from the North Carolina chapter of the American Planning Association Contributors: Food Access

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King, Leigh Anne
- Other Affiliation: Senior Associate, Clarion Associates, Chapel Hill, NC

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The Importance of Local Food Systems: A little known fact is that, generally speaking, food consumed in the United States travels 1,500 miles from the farms that grow our food to the forks that serve it to us. Also not well known, is that in 2006, the value of food imported into the United States exceeded the value of food exported – challenging our status as the bread basket of the world. 1 Industrial processing and food distribution systems that thrived over the last century and a half brought us food from around the globe and saved us food preparation time in the kitchen. The result is that today, our relationship with food is very different from what previous generations experienced. The days of it being commonplace to grow up on a farm, to know the dairy that produces your milk, the butcher that cuts your meat, or the baker that bakes your bread waned long ago. While agriculture remains America’s primary land use with more than one billion acres of land devoted to agricultural purposes, our connection to the food we consume and the producers that make it has diminished.2 Today, many school children do not even know where their food comes from, and some may argue that the food choices being marketed to them hardly resemble good healthy food.

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