A regional equity report from The Fund for Santa Barbara, the UCSB Blum Center, and the USC Equity Research Institute, examining wages, housing, criminal justice, education, and environmental inequities across Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Central Coast Potential Priority Areas for Policy Agenda (March 2023)
This working document from March 2023 captures an early Community of Practice exercise to prioritize a shared regional food policy agenda. Members ranked potential policy focus areas as High, Medium, or Low priority (or N/A) across categories including food access and healthy food environments, growing food, producing and selling food, and food security — covering topics such as local food promotion, farmers markets, institutional procurement, community gardens and urban farms, regenerative agriculture, cottage food law, micro-enterprise home kitchen operations (MEHKO), and CalFresh/WIC benefits, with individual members’ rankings and notes recorded for each item.
The document offers a useful historical snapshot of which policy issues Central Coast members considered most pressing as the Community of Practice’s shared agenda was first taking shape.
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