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The Center for Farmland Policy Innovation, 2006-2012, was housed in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, and was associated with the OSU Extension Services.  The mission was to enable communities to achieve farmland protection policy priorities by partnering on innovative projects and providing needed programming. We work to spread local seeds of invention. Further, the center worked at the state and federal levels to further viable local agricultural environments.

Under the leadership of Jill Clark, now at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, advisory board chair, Mark Partridge, AEDE professor, and a 14 person advisory board, the Center funded ten community policy experiments and nine food-related economic development projects. These cover a range of activities, such as fostering local food policy councils, planning for a regional food hub, establishing community agricultural economic development priorities, pioneering new farm to school strategies, developing model zoning ordinances, conducting healthy corner stores interventions, constructing a manure bartering market, and opening new markets for culturally-appropriate crops.  The center has published 25 policy and project briefs, maintained a communications network on related issues, planned six Ohio Farmland Preservation Summits and a recent food policy council statewide meeting, and given dozens of talks and lectures

 

All Policy/Project Briefs and White Papers are in adobe acrobat format.