The 2006-07 Food System Enhancement Project Final Report is done and available. You can download the entire report, or you can download each half of the report separately. Here are the links to the Neighborhood Report and to the Greenhouse Gas Report.

For your viewing pleasure, here is a link to our final presentation given to the UW's Environmental Management Program and to the City of Seattle's Food IDT.

Enjoy!

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our team will work closely with the City of Seattle, and in particular Laura Raymond who oversees the city's P-Patch Program and is a member of the Food Systems IDT, to conduct a city-wide food system assessment to define and analyze system enhancement opportunities in Seattle, WA. Our team will analyze the food system in Seattle and in specific seek to understand how food systems exist in certain neighborhoods. This will involve initiating a neighborhood food assessment of 2 Seattle neighborhoods representing different socio-economic demographics. We will look at questions like "What are the true access issues in a low-income neighborhood?" After careful study, we will come up with a suite of options to improve the food systems in those neighborhoods. This assessment will hopefully serve as a model for other neighborhoods in Seattle. Another interesting aspect of the project will include connecting our project to the climate change work being done in the city. In an effort to meet the Kyoto Protocols for Seattle, we will show how the food system in Seattle is linked to green-house gas emissions and that by improving the city's food system, we can positively reduce carbon emissions.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

To conduct a city-wide food system assessment to define and analyze system enhancement opportunities that:

• Reduce ecological impacts and system vulnerabilities
• Improve equity, system resilience, food security, and
• Provide economic opportunities for local food entrepreneurs including detailed analysis of 2 or 3 food-insecure neighborhoods.