Leopold Center - Marketing and Food Systems Initiative

Marketing and Food Systems Initiative

Marketing workshop At least 250 people attended the March 30 Marketing and Food Systems Initiative workshop in Ames. Watch this page for materials and multi-media items from the workshop to be posted soon. News release with comments from the workshop.
New coop Read about the Iowa Food Cooperative and the role played by the Leopold Center in its development.
Local food comes of age Read about the challenges ahead for local foods, from Leopold Center Marketing and Food Systems Initiative Director Rich Pirog in the center's latest newsletter. More
Local food, World Book The latest Science Yearbook includes a report on local food, written by Leopold Center Associate Director Rich Pirog. Read the article, reproduced with permission from World Book Publishing.

Competitive Grants

2009 grant projects Read about 18 new projects for the initiative. Grants for 7 earlier projects also were renewed. Read descriptions of projects and profiles of the people who will be doing the work. Read about projects that cross all initiatives at the Leopold Center.
Food Facts: Results from Marketing and Food Systems Research This web page has key research findings from projects supported by the Leopold Center's Marketing and Food Systems Initiative and the Regional Food Systems Working Group. Also available as a colorful print report, March 2008

Value Chain Partnerships and Regional Food Systems Working Group

Local foods in Iowa The Leopold Center, through the Regional Food Systems Working Group, is supporting local food system efforts in these areas:
- Hometown Harvest of Southeast Iowa (Davis, Jefferson, Keokuk, Mahaska, Van Buren and Wapello counties), led by the Pathfinders RC&D, Fairfield
- Northeast Iowa Food and Farm Coalition (Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties), led by Iowa State University Extension, Decorah
- South West Iowa Food and Farm Initiative (Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie, Montgomery, Pottawattomie and Shelby counties), led by the Wallace Foundation for Rural Research and Development, Lewis
- Northern Iowa Food and Farm Partnership (Black Hawk and neighboring counties) led by the UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education
- Northwest Iowa Regional Local Foods System (Cherokee, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux and Woodbury), led by the Floyd Boulevard Local Foods Market program in Sioux City (no web site available) and
- Marshall County (no web site developed yet)