SF Mayor Newsom Pt 2 of 2 Sustainable Foodshed Summit, Oakland CA, July 8, 2009

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom offers a preview of the Executive Directive on Healthy Sustainable Food for San Francisco which he publicly announced later that day. The plan aims to ensure that all regional residents have access to healthy food, and will have far reaching impact throughout Northern California by increasing support for area farms.

Mayor Newsom, who spawned the healthy food movement among political leaders with his Slow Food Nation garden in 2008, issued the most comprehensive and holistic food policy document yet produced by any political body in the nation. Other cities have embraced some of the items in Newsoms directive, but what is most groundbreaking is that he calls out the need to prioritize healthy food access and the interdependence of rural and urban communities in a period of economic crisis, knitting the many elements required to create a functional foodshed that serves rich and poor.

Newson's Directive grew out of the San Francisco Urban-Rural Roundtable, a project sponsored by Roots of Change. The Urban-Rural Roundtable brought together 50 leaders from city and country to prototype urban and rural collaboration in the development of a foodshed for the City.

The Direct Farm Marketing Summit: Developing Sustainable Foodsheds to Enhance Food Access and Nutrition was a special summit meeting presented by Roots of Change and the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. One hundred and thirty leaders from across the nation gathered July 7-9, 2009 in Oakland, California in order to accelerate the nation's development of sustainable foodsheds that offer fresh, healthy, regional and sustainable food to all people regardless of income level or location.

The Sustainable Foodshed Summit http://tiny.cc/6T4gV

Text of Executive Directive on Healthy Sustainable Food for San Francisco http://tinyurl.com/mung6w

Press Release of Mayor Newsom issuing regional food policy http://tinyurl.com/mzzz6f

Photos of the Summit and the Press Conference - http://tinyurl.com/kvgmdb

Twitter hashtag - #foodshed

Show your support by signing the national Food Declaration - Http://www.FoodDeclaration.org

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• roots of change
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