Resources

MA Food System Collaborative publications

• E-newsletters
• Small Parcel Agriculture: Policies for the changing face of Massachusetts agriculture (March, 2021)
• Massachusetts’ Food Security Infrastructure Grant Program: Summary, analysis, and recommendations (March, 2021)
• Massachusetts’ Local Food System and Climate Change: Opportunities for mutually supportive policy (December 2020)
• Massachusetts’ Local Food System: Perspectives on Resilience and Recovery (October 2020)
• Reducing Food Waste in Massachusetts: Local Successes Informing Statewide Solutions (November 2019)
• Sustainability and Equity in the Massachusetts Food System: Public sector progress, 2016-2018 (October 2018)
• Cultivating Good Food Policy: A guide to advocacy campaigns for Massachusetts food system stakeholders (September 2018)
• Local Food Systems: The role of municipal governments (September 2018)
• Local and affordable: Massachusetts-grown produce less expensive than grocery store produce (August 2018)
• Sustainability and Equity in the Massachusetts Food System: A Progress Report (June 2018)

Massachusetts organizations and agencies

• Massachusetts organizations that support and advocate for the food system
• State agencies that regulate and support the food system
• Legislator contact information (2021-22)
• Committees of the Legislature that consider laws related to the food system
• How an idea becomes a law in Massachusetts

Guides to food system advocacy

• New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System
• The Massachusetts Farm and Food System: A Five-Year Policy Framework (1988)
• A Policy for Food and Agriculture in Massachusetts (1976)
• In Search of a Food Policy (1974)
• Municipal Strategies to Increase Food Access

Other New England organizations

• Connecticut Food System Alliance
• Maine Food Strategy
• New Hampshire Food Alliance
• Rhode Island Food Policy Council
• Vermont Farm to Plate
• Food Solutions New England

Other resources

• Sources for Massachusetts food system data
• Advocacy for nonprofit organizations
• Massachusetts State Budget Process