Eating Here: Greater Philadelphia's Food System Plan

Food, a good produced, consumed, and shipped throughout our region, is a major component of our region's transportation, land use, energy, and environmental systems. DVRPC's Eating Here: Greater Philadelphia's Food System Plan will identify a set of shared values and goals, key indicators, and recommendations for a more sustainable food system.

Through the plan, DVRPC and the Greater Philadelphia Food System Stakeholder Committee will seek to:

• Support local agriculture and grow the local food economy while improving profitability for farmers.
• Protect the environment.
• Ensure safety, security, and healthfulness of food and the food supply.
• Improve nutrition and reduce obesity and preventable diseases.
• Ensure residents of the region have access to enough nutritious food to eat.
• Encourage collaboration between individuals, organizations, and government agencies.

The plan follows ups on the Commission's first phase of food system planning, the Greater Philadelphia Food System Study, a large surveying effort and analysis that identified prominent stakeholders, successful programs, regional competitive advantages, recommendations for improvement, and differing interests.

Eating Here: Cultivating a Robust Food System in Greater Philadelphia – SUMMARY REPORT

Eating Here: Greater Philadelphia's Food System Plan

Development of Eating Here: Greater Philadelphia's Food System Plan is funded by DVRPC's work program with generous support from the G. R. Dodge Foundation.