Food and COVID-19 Resource Hubs

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Taylor in Farming Resources, Food Safety, Food Systems, Planning, Publications // 0 Comments

New Food and COVID-19 Resource Hubs – Public Resources, News, and Articles

Several new resource hubs have emerged centralizing information about food, farming, and the COVID-19 epidemic. A valuable resource for teachers, scholars, farmers, and anyone interested in the farming and food system

The Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation invites you to visit our new webpage on “The Food System and COVID-19.”

https://foodsystems.centers.vt.edu/COVID-19intheFoodSystem.html

With this online resource, we aim to serve stakeholders on and off-campus with curated public resources, news, and articles related to COVID-19 and the food system. Share ideas and inspiration about the food system and social change possibilities through position articles written by Center associates and fellows. Steward an ongoing dialogue about structural changes needed to address the inequities COVID-19 is highlighting in our food system.

Contact Katie Trozzo at ketrozzo@vt.edu if you have additional resources or news pieces for us to catalog on the webpage, or if you have an interest in writing a position article related to Food Systems and COVID-19 to add to the dialogue.

FOOD TBD announces an information and resource hub for Food and Covid-19

Food TBD, an information and resource hub produced by the Lexicon of Sustainability, joins with Vanessa García Polanco, a graduate student at Michigan State University (MSU), today to announce FOOD AND COVID-19, an online community platform for food system responses to Covid-19.

NGO leaders, academics, activists and decision makers are invited to join this community, share resources, contribute articles, and make connections with fellow practitioners across the food system during this challenging time.

The site consists of two sections. The first is organized by resources. The second is place-based and allows community organizations, NGOs and food policy councils to create dedicated areas for rapid response.

Vanessa García Polanco, who first created the online resource as a Google Doc, notes, “I created this resource as a way to facilitate communication and resource sharing between food/ag advocates, practitioners, scholars and decision makers. This site is my way to put my skills and knowledge to the service of others in the middle of a crisis and uncertainty.”

Douglas Gayeton, co-director at The Lexicon, observes, “We are grateful to be able to support Vanessa’s vision with our team and tools and hope that what we’re building can nurture a community among food system experts and community-based organizations that accelerates a fair and thoughtful food response to this crisis. ”

“We’re thrilled to be a part of this important effort. Our mission is to digitally connect people around a shared cause, and it’s hard to find a cause more important than The Lexicon’s right now,” says Dave Hersh, CEO of Mobilize, the San Francisco based tech company behind the online community platform.

To join the Food and Covid-19 online community, simply click on this link: https://foodtbd.mobilize.io. It will guide you through a simple one screen registration process, then grant you access to the site where you can join others in helping respond to this crisis. To just see the list of articles and resources, go here.