Farm-to-school - Strategies for urban health, combating sprawl, and establishing a community food systems approach

Farm-to-school is it new, innovative strategy with multiple planning-related objectives. The article evaluates the significance farm-to-school ill relation to improving the health and nutrition of school-age. children, particularly low-income youth; strengthening the capacity of local farmers, particularly those engaged in sustainable practices; adding to the toolkit of strategics designed to contain and ultimately reduce sprawl-inducing developments by helping Preserve farmland; and helping establish a community food systems approach no longer entirely dependent on the global food system that has come to dominate food growing, processing, distribution, and consumption Patterns around the world.