Evaluation and Program Planning
- Community Food Project Evaluation Handbook
- National Research Center, Inc. (2006). Community Food Project Evaluation Handbook. Community Food Security Coalition.
- Farm to School
- Joshi, A., Henderson, T., Ratcliffe, M.M., Feenstra, G. (2014). Evaluation for Transformation: A Cross-Sectoral Evaluation Framework for Farm to School, National Farm to School Network.
- Local Food Economics
- A Toolkit to Help Your Community Understand the Economic Impacts of Your Local Food System Initiatives, https://localfoodeconomics.com/
- Whole Measures for Community Food Systems: Values Based Planning & Evaluation - "Whole Measures for Community Food Systems is designed to give organizations and communities a collaborative process for defining and expressing their complex stories and the multiple outcomes that emerge from their work." Summary of a collaborative, multi-stakeholder process. Community Food Security Coalition, 2009.
Community Food Assessment
- Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit Resource developed through USDA Economic Research Service providing a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. 2002.
- Community-based food system assessment and planning(Facilitator’s Guidebook) Publication serves as a guidebook for facilitators assessing and planning community-based food systems. It provides a process for gathering stakeholders using the “Community Capitals Framework” (Flora, Flora, and Fey 2003) and assessing community food systems. 2011 Virginia Cooperative Extension Publication 3108-9029.
Example North Carolina Food Assessments
- Statewide - From Farm to Fork: State Action Guide From 2008-2009, 1,000-plus individuals participated in the CEFS' Farm to Fork initiative. They contributed their experiences, ideas and vision to develop a guide for action focused on a local food economy for NC.
- EmPOWERing Mountain Food Systems Food and Farm Assessment, 2019. Covers the EmPOWER Region of Jackson, Macon, Haywood, Swain, Cherokee, Clay, and Graham Counties. The Assessment was written by ASAP.
- Rutherford County Baseline Food Assessment, 2019. Covers Rutherfod, Polk, and McDowell counties. Written by Taylor Burch for Rutherford-Polk-McDowell District Health Department
- Food and Farm Assessment for a Five-County Region in the Southern Appalachians: Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes, and Johnson County, 2012
- Local Food and Farm Assessment: Avery, Rutherford, and Yancey Counties, 2013
- Healthy, Fresh, Local Food: An Action Plan for Increasing Availability and Access in Beaufort County, NC
- 14-County Greater Charlotte Region - CONNECT Our Future
- Action Plan for Food Systems Improvement, January 2014.
- Food Systems Assessment Report, July 2014.
- Food and Farm Assessment: Clay County, North Carolina, 2011
- Forsyth County‘s Community Food System: A Foundation to Grow, 2013
- Local Food System Assessment for McDowell County, NC, 2015
- Triangle Farms for Food: Strategy + Action Plan, 2015
- Western Region Assessments, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project:
If your North Carolina community has completed a food system assessment that you would like to share here, please email the title of the assessment and a link to hannah_dankbar@ncsu.edu.
