Farm-to-School Strategies for Urban Health, Combating Sprawl, and Establishing a Community Food Systems Approach

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