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	Federal and State Agencies
www.agriculture.state.ia.us	Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
www.act.fcic.usda.gov	United States Department of Agriculture; Risk Management Agency; RMA
www.fns.usda.gov/fns	United States Department of Agriculture; Food and Nutrition Service; FNS
www.reeusda.gov	United States Department of Agriculture; Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; CSREES.
www.ncagr.com	North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
http://ag.utah.gov	State of Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
	Local and Regional Food Policy Councils
www.berkeleyfood.org	Berkeley Food Policy Council: Berkeley, California
www.hartfordfood.org/programs/ food_policy_hart.html	City of Hartford Advisory Commission on Food Policy: Hartford, Connecticut
www.korrnet.org/kfpc	Knoxville-Knox Food Policy Council: Knoxville, Tennessee
www.lanefood.org	Lane County Food Coalition: Eugene, Oregon
www.sustainableportland.org	Portland/Multnomah County Food Policy Council: Portland, Oregon
www.tahomafoodsystem.org	The Tahoma Food System: Puget Sound Region, Washington State
www.city.toronto.on.ca	Toronto Food Policy Council: Toronto, Canada
	Organizations promoting the development of regional, sustainable food systems
www.allorganiclinks.com	All Organic Links: A global resource for all things organic. This site has a searchable database to 1,990+ links for organic sites and includes a variety of topics that promote the environments certified organic food production.
www.communitygarden.org	American Community Gardening Association: ACGA, Founded in 1979 to help gardening programs share their limited resources, and benefit from each other's experience and expertise. ACGA promotes the formation and expansion of national and regional community gardening networks, develops resources in support of community gardening and greening, encourages research on the impact of community greening, and conducts educational programs.
www.attra.ncat.org	Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural America: ATTRA,  funded by the US Department of Agriculture, is a national sustainable agriculture information service managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology. It provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States.
www.foodsecurity.org	Community Food Security Coalition: CFSC is a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times.
www.frac.org/index.html	Food Research Action Center: FRAC, is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in the United States. Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country.
www.foodroutes.org/index.jsp	Food Routes Network: FRN is dedicated to supporting and promoting the advancement of community-based, local food systems that help retain value for farmers, create social and economic benefits for communities, improve environmental quality, and produce foods that promote health.
www.leopold.iastate.edu	Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture: A not for profit organization administered through Iowa State University that strives to identify and reduce negative impacts of agriculture on natural resources and rural communities, develop profitable farming systems that conserve natural resources, and to work with ISU Extension and other groups to inform the public of new research findings.
www.localharvest.org	Local Harvest: Find local sources of sustainably grown food. Local Harvest encourages building relationships through direct contact with family farms in your local area.
www.mlui.org/index.asp	Michigan Land Use Institute: MLUI was founded in 1995 to establish an approach to economic development that strengthens communities, enhances opportunity, and protects the state's unmatched natural resources.
www.sustainableagriculture.net	National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture: is dedicated to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane.
www.csacenter.org	Robyn VanEn Center for CSA resources: The Robyn Van En Center offers a variety of services to existing and new CSA farmers and shareholders nationally. This site houses a national CSA farm directory in addition to other products, services, and relevant links.
www.sare.org	Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education program: SARE, is U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded initiative that sponsors competitive grants for sustainable agriculture research and education in a regional process nationwide.
www.slowfood.com	Slow Food: An international movement dedicated to protecting the "right to taste" through events, debates and other initiatives. SlowFood specializes in tourism, food and wine; identifying and cataloguing regional products and dishes that are in danger of disappearing!
www.swmarketing.ncat.org	Southwest Marketing Network: The Southwest Marketing Network was initiated to increase regional marketing expertise and opportunities for farmers and ranchers, especially those in more isolated areas of the Four Corners states; New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. The Network brings together projects already "on the ground," their sponsors, and participants to learn together and form a network with a structure responsive to the needs of the participants.
www.thefoodalliance.org	The Food Alliance: A non-profit organization that promotes sustainable agriculture by recognizing and rewarding farmers who produce food in environmentally and socially responsible ways, and educating consumers and others in the food system about the benefits of sustainable agriculture.
www.newfarm.org	The New Farm: Farmer to farmer know how from the Rodale Institute.
www.winrock.org/what/ wallace_center.cfm	Winrock International; Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy: Winrock's Wallace Center uses sound policy analysis, research, and evaluation to further sustainable and equitable agriculture and food systems, promote natural resources management, strengthen rural communities, and shape U.S. agricultural and food policy agendas. Educational programs and policy reports foster debate and understanding. The Wallace Center focuses on measuring policy effects, making recommendations to policy makers, understanding the environmental and social effects of industrialized food systems, providing information dissemination, outreach, and training, and promotion of alternative, sustainable agricultural and food systems.

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