- Define and measure relevant outcomes of community, local, and regional food systems using economic, environmental, and health perspectives.
- Develop strong evaluation tools to use with common programs or with agreed upon components to common initiatives.
- Systematize tools for data collection and analysis.
- Generate effective ways to measure impacts reliably without adding burden to county staff.
- Identify or create a common repository for gathering regional data on local foods work.
- Conduct relevant research to challenge assumptions related to local foods.
- Gather defensible data to show Extension’s impact and justify our existence.
- Strengthen the regional infrastructure for capturing impacts.
- Convene representatives from all Southern states to participate fully as a regional initiative.
- Serve as a resource for supporting and promoting local foods programs that can lead to desired outcomes.
- Accurately capture inputs across Extension’s program areas related to local foods.
- Identify program gaps.
- Identify best practices.
- Convene representatives from all Southern states to participate fully as a regional initiative.
- Communicate the value and impact of Extension’s local foods programming.
- Develop data-driven public value statements communicating the impact of Extension work.
- Strengthen regional infrastructure for communicating successes.
- Capture qualitative success stories, photographs, etc., to add the human touch to the data.
- Report defensible data to prove Extension’s impact and justify our existence.
- Convene representatives from all Southern states to participate fully as a regional initiative.
- Foster greater cross-programmatic connections among those working in food systems through Extension and Research.
- Expand existing programs to include local food initiatives.
- Strengthen regional infrastructure for capturing impacts and communicating successes.
- Accurately capture inputs from Extension across program areas into the foods work.
- Convene representatives from all Southern states to participate fully as a regional initiative.
September 17, 2014
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