For decades, the Wallace Center has supported entrepreneurs and communities as they’ve worked to build a new food system that is healthier for people, the environment and the economy. Learn more about Wallace Center’s past projects and collaborations here.
Wallace Center’s work in Increasing Farmer Success in Local Food Markets in the Deep South: Mississippi and Alabama was designed to strengthen the capacities of limited resource and/or historically disadvantaged farmers, farmer groups, and support organizations in order to facilitate farmers’ success in accessing new markets for fresh produce and by further developing relationships and connections to markets, that support longer term growth and stability for family farms.
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The Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development (HUFED) Center, managed by the Wallace Center at Winrock International, was supported by a grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The Center was an outcome of the 2008 Farm Bill, designed to increase underserved communities’ access to healthy, affordable, locally and regionally sourced food.
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Community Food Enterprise is a detailed field report on the performance of 24 community-based food enterprises, half inside the United States and half international. Each case study presents analysis of the enterprise’s economic, social, and environmental impacts, demonstrating how community food enterprises have transformed factors that once stymied their performance and profitability – smaller scale, modest ambition, limited local ownership, and high social standards – into powerful competitive advantages vis-à-vis multinational food businesses.
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The National Good Food Network is an initiative of the Wallace Center working to scale up the supply of good food – food that is healthy, green, fair and affordable – into more retail, wholesale, and institutional markets, and provide greater access for traditionally underserved communities.
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