Center for Environmental Farming Systems

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (www.cefs.ncsu.edu) has been funded to reach out across the state and together with our partners ask: What will it take to build a sustainable local food economy in North Carolina?

From the mountains to the coast, various organizations are promoting and implementing exciting initiatives to support our state and communities through sustainable local agriculture.

Over the next year, CEFS and its partners will be gathering information from across food system sectors: conducting regional meetings, targeted issues discussions, interviews, hosting a statewide summit on March 2 and

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The purpose of the regional meetings is to bring together those engaged in all aspects of the food system. We want to identify specific regional and local sustainable food systems models that are working and also regional challenges that can be addressed through policies, programs, and funding.

If you are a farmer, supplier, processor, economic development organizer, distributor, farm and food industry worker, extension or other educator, marketer, financial provider, University or community college, elected official, government agency worker, county and city planner, farm organization, anti-poverty organizer, social justice worker, consumer or consumer group, granting agency, health and wellness

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