RE: policy question

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Tiffany;

Please review this USDA site:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/foodsecurity/

I believe what you are looking for is known as the "USDA Community
Food Security Initiative". 

http://www.reeusda.gov/food_security/foodbg.htm

Contact: For more information, contact: Joel Berg, Coordinator of Community
Food Security, USDA, Room 536-A, 14th and Independence SW, Washington, DC,
20250, phone (202) 720-5746, fax (202) 690-1131, e-mail: joel.berg@usda.gov 

With all the recent political changes in Washington, DC, it is possible that
this program has been altered.

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

-----Original Message-----
From: Honigman, Adam [A*@bowne.com]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:04 PM
To: 'Tiffany Bucknam'; community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject: RE: [cg] policy question

Tiffany,

Busy now, please look here in your local ag library:

United States Department of Agriculture. National Public Policy Education
Committee. 1995 (nineteen ninety-five) Farm Bill issues briefs. Ames, Iowa:
Iowa State University Extension, 1994. 1v. in various pagings 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tiffany Bucknam [t*@du.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:07 PM
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject: [cg] policy question

Hello. I am a social work student interning in a community 
gardening agency. My supervisor asked me a question about 
policy that I'm having a hard time answering. Maybe you can 
help.

He mentioned to me that in the late 1970's/early 1980's 
legislation was passed that funded the start of community 
gardening organizations in each state. Then, more recently, 
another bill was passed that provided funds for community 
gardening as well. I'm having a booger of a time hunting down 
the exact bills, but I think that the recent one is the Community 
Food Securities Act of 1995.

My question is twofold. First, what are these bills? Second, did 
the funds provided in the first bill get replaced by the funds 
provided in the second, or is that money still available?

If anybody has any info on this, I would love to hear from you. 
Thanks!!!

Tiffany Bucknam
tbucknam@du.edu

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