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JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 414-423Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X04264765
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farm-to-school; nutrition; farmland loss; sprawl; community food systems
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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.
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