Success StoryKentucky Team Leads National Project Supporting Local Food Systems in COVID-19
Kentucky Team Leads National Project Supporting Local Food Systems in COVID-19
Author: Emily Spencer
Planning Unit: Agr Economics
Major Program: Farm Management, Economics and Policy
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Led by Lilian Brislen and Tim Woods, and assisted by Emily Spencer and Jairus Rossi, the University of Kentucky led a national team of university partners, community practitioners, and USDA AMS representatives in a project uncovering and addressing the needs of local food systems stakeholders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts by the University of Kentucky resulted in the following:
- Detailed Impact Assessments from August 2020 and May 2021 from 17 different local food systems stakeholders, from Farmers Markets to CSA and Agritourism operators to restaurants and commissary kitchens.
- 20 Listening Sessions with local food systems stakeholders
- 15 published Innovation Briefs, detailing innovations that local food systems stakeholders made during the COVID pandemic that they plan to continue on, beyond COVID
- 12-part webinar series about various aspects affecting the local food system in the midst of COVID
- a 2.0 project grant from USDA AMS to support our efforts moving forward
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