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Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity, and Opportunity

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A guide for CT municipalities, a publication from American Farmland Trust and CT Department of Agriculture. 

 The Healthy Food Policy Project (HFPP) identifies and elevates local laws that seek to promote access to healthy food while also contributing to strong local economies, an improved environment, and health equity, with a focus on socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups. HFPP is a multiyear collaboration of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School (CAFS), the Public Health Law Center (PHLC), and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut. This project is funded by the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

 The Rudd Center is a multi-disciplinary policy research center dedicated to providing high-level expertise and guidance on obesity prevention, food marketing to children, food assistance programs, food and nutrition-related policies, and policies to reduce weight bias against individuals with obesity. Since its inception, the Rudd Center has been clearly established in both national and international circles as the place where science and public policy intersect, and where innovation linked to action is a guiding philosophy. 

  The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future's Food Policy Networks (FPN) project supports the development of state and local food policy through networking, capacity building, research, and technical assistance. Launched in 2013, FPN conducts a census of food policy councils (FPC) every 18 months, facilitates communities of learning and practice, offers curbside consulting, hosts thematic discussions, and develops resources to aid FPCs in their work. FPN partners with various organizations across the U.S. to achieve our vision of creating an equitable, healthy, sustainable, and just food system through civic engagement, advocacy and public policy.   

 The Growing Food Connections Local Government Policy Database is a searchable collection of local public policies that explicitly support community food systems. This database provides policymakers, government staff, and others interested in food policy with concrete examples of local public policies that have been adopted to address a range of food systems issues: rural and urban food production, farmland protection, transfer of development rights, food aggregation and distribution infrastructure, local food purchasing and procurement, healthy food access, food policy councils, food policy coordination, food system metrics, tax reductions and exemptions for food infrastructure, and much more. 

  The Massachusetts Food System Collaborative supports collective action toward an equitable, sustainable, resilient, and connected local food system in Massachusetts. We envision a local food system where everyone has access to healthy food, to land to grow food, to good jobs, and to the systems where policy decisions are made. MFSC coordinates the MA Food Policy Network. 

 A guide put together by Harvard's Food Law and Policy Clinic and Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. 

  From The Food Trust, The Healthy Food Access Portal harnesses a vast array of data and information to support the successful planning and implementation of Healthy Food Financing Initiative programs and healthy retail business development across the country.