Food System Assessments
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Audubon County Food System Atlas: Exploring Community Food Systems [PDF], Report writt
en by
ISU sociologist Clare Hinrichs, September 2002
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Benton County Food System Atlas: Exploring Community Food Systems [PDF], Report written by ISU sociologist Clare Hinrichs, September 2002
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Johnson County Food System Atlas: Exploring Community Food Systems [PDF], Report written by ISU sociologist Clare Hinrichs, September 2002
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Marshall County Food System Atlas: Exploring Community Food Systems [PDF], Report written by ISU sociologist Clare Hinrichs, September 2002
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Grape Expectations: A food system perspective on redeveloping the Iowa grape industry, Leopold Center paper that looks at Iowa's once thriving grape industry and its potential today, August 2002
- Future of the
Bioeconomy in
Green County, A
Pilot Study for
Iowa,
Final report of
a project funded
by the
BioEconomy
Working Group of
the Value Chain
Partnerships
project
coordinated by
the Leopold
Center. Other
partners were
the Greene
County
Development
Corporate and
Iowa Energy
Center. November
2007[PDF- NOTE:
File is 4.7 MB;
report is 206
pages]
- Local
food, local
policy: A case
study on
engaging policy
makers in the
development of
their foodshed,
Final report of
a special
project funded
by the Leopold
Center and
conducted by the
Johnson County
Local Food
Alliance,
October 2007
- Regional food
and farm
economies
How much
money do people
in a region
spend on food?
How much food is
actually
produced in that
region? Ken
Meter from
Crossroads
Resource Center
analyzed the
regional economy
in northeast
Iowa and in
Woodbury County.
Read summaries
of his results:
Northeast Iowa
[PDF]
Woodbury County
[PDF]
- Iowa ag snapshot
[PDF]
Using farm
census data, the
Leopold Center
has created a
table and chart
listing crop and
livestock
enterprises
each year
on Iowa
farms, including
the most current
data from 2002, December
2004.