Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development

Expanding Sustainable and Community-based Food Systems Project Evaluation

Tags: Agriculture, Evaluation, Natural Resource Based Economic Development

Client Name: Wallace Center at Winrock International

Client Type: Non-profit

Year: 2008, 2009, 2010

Location: Virginia

Yellow Wood Associates evaluated the second half of the Wallace Center's Expanding Sustainable and Community-based Food Systems project funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The multi-faceted project included regranting to four organizations involved in food systems work, forming a "good food" value chain network, convening the annual FAS conference, developing indicators of "good food" and more. The evaluation was geared to interactive learning as well as outcomes.