Design decisions for buildings and communities are critical to efforts to increase local and regional resiliency. Building designers — of residential, institutional, and commercial structures — should strive to incorporate passive and active survivability concepts into new and renovated structures.
Community planners and developers need to incorporate concepts that increase the capacity to maintain transportation flow, strategies to handle water management, and infrastructure approaches that will withstand a variety of risks.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Conducting an Economic Impact Assessment of Regional Food Hubs using IMPLAN: A Systematic Approach
This guide walks you through the steps of measuring the local economic impact of expanding food hub activities, either from the establishment of a new hub or the expansion of an existing hub.
Community Supported Agriculture: New Models for Changing Markets
This study identified trends in marketing and business strategies for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) models in response to changing consumer preferences and direct marketing opportunities.
Cultivating Climate Resilience on Farms and Ranches
This article helps readers understand the climate risks to their production system and practices that can reduce those risks.
Data to Support a Thriving and Informed Local and Regional Food Sector
This project provides open-access tools and data to illustrate areas of need and opportunities to close equity gaps related to nutrition, food access, food system labor, and agriculture and food business ownership.
Farm to CACFP
Virginia’s Farm to CACFP initiative connects participants to nutrition education, Virginia-grown foods, and gardening opportunities.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Conducting an Economic Impact Assessment of Regional Food Hubs using IMPLAN: A Systematic Approach
This guide walks you through the steps of measuring the local economic impact of expanding food hub activities, either from the establishment of a new hub or the expansion of an existing hub.
Community Supported Agriculture: New Models for Changing Markets
This study identified trends in marketing and business strategies for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) models in response to changing consumer preferences and direct marketing opportunities.
Cultivating Climate Resilience on Farms and Ranches
This article helps readers understand the climate risks to their production system and practices that can reduce those risks.
Data to Support a Thriving and Informed Local and Regional Food Sector
This project provides open-access tools and data to illustrate areas of need and opportunities to close equity gaps related to nutrition, food access, food system labor, and agriculture and food business ownership.
Farm to CACFP
Virginia’s Farm to CACFP initiative connects participants to nutrition education, Virginia-grown foods, and gardening opportunities.