The City Food Policy Project

The City Food Policy Project (CFPP) is a collaborative research project between Colorado State University, Cornell University, and the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy. CFPP explores the potential of cities to use food procurement policies to advance social, environmental, and economic goals for themselves and their surrounding regions while benefiting the health and nutritional wellbeing of the people who provide, and who are served by, publicly procured food.

CFPP brings together researchers, policy practitioners, and food system stakeholders (local and international) to compile and validate data, analyze potential policy actions, and to baseline and map out the existing supply chains that feed a particular city. In doing so, CFPP will develop the empirical tools that inform how cities understand tradeoffs associated with how values-based food procurement policies are implemented. Read more about the City Food Policy Project here.