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• Eric DeLuca, [email protected]
• Organizational Development Consultant
• Specializing in:
• Innovation
• Collaborative Leadership
• Profound Change
Building Regional Cooperation: Where Co-ops, Food Systems, and Geography Intersect
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Themes
• Planning in collaboration
• How cooperatives support community resilience
• The broader relevance of food systems
• Value of regional approaches
• Rural/urban collaboration
• Turning maps into inspiring stories
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Planning in Collaboration
• Scenario findings: Communication & coordination key
• Strategic focus: Relationship-development
• Target: Like-minded networks
Neighboring Food Co-op Association (2009)
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Local Local EmploymentEmployment
State & Local State & Local GovernmentGovernment
Co-op Members & ShoppersCo-op Members & Shoppers
Community Food Co-opsCommunity Food Co-ops
Local ProductsLocal Products& Services& Services
How Cooperatives Support Community Resilience
Neighboring Food Co-op Association (2009)
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• Community ownership & control
• Focus on service, meeting needs before profit
• Develop local skills & assets
• Ability to assemble limited resources
• Low failure rate & long-lived
• Difficult to move or buy-out
• Mobilize member, customer and supplier loyalty
• Result: stable food system, infrastructure, employment & services
How Cooperatives Support Community Resilience
Neighboring Food Co-op Association (2009)
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The Broader Relevance of Food Systems
• Local economies
•Climate change
•Mitigate dependence on fossil fuel
•Transition Initiatives
•Bringing people together
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Value of Regional Approaches
• A regional food system is “greater than the sum of its ‘locals’ ”
• Meet the population’s food needs from supply chains at multiple levels and scales based in the region.
• The regional scale may be optimal across four key dimensions:
1. Food needs and supply2. Environmental sustainability3. Economic development4. Diversity
Ruhf and Clancy (2010)
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Food System Development: A Private – Public Partnership
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• Urban markets for high quality regional food
•Network development
•Complementary funding sources
Rural / Urban Collaboration
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Turning Maps into Inspiring Stories
www.lamontanita.coop/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=49
Southwest: New MexicoLa Montanita Co-op’s Food Shed Project
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Turning Maps into Inspiring Stories
Dan Erickson, University of VermontVT Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets
survey
New England: Vermont
Farm to Plate Initiativewww.vsjf.org/project-details/5/farm-to-plate-initiative
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Turning Maps into Inspiring Stories
Northwestern New England
Neighboring Food Cooperative Association
www.nfca.coop
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Turning Maps into Inspiring Stories
Mid-Atlantic Region
www.dvrpc.org/Food/
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Food System Planning
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What’s your vision for Food System & Cooperative Development
Over the next 20 years?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• Whom would you talk with first?
•What are three simple things you could do over the next three months to begin moving toward your vision?
Building Regional Cooperation: Where Co-ops, Food Systems, and Geography Intersect
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Thank You!
Eric DeLuca, [email protected]
Building Regional Cooperation: Where Co-ops, Food Systems, and Geography Intersect