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Community Food Assessment

“A Community Food Assessment (CFA) is a collaborative and participatory process that systematically examines a broad range of community food issues and assets, so as to inform change actions to make the community more food secure.”
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/faqs/ria_080.asp?section=7&click=1

General Resources

Community Food Security Coalition: Comprehensive list of resources related to Community Food Assessments.

http://www.foodsecurity.org/cfa_home.html

Guides

Community Food Security Coalition: What's cooking in your food system? Comprehensive guide to planning and implementing a CFA, including potential data sources. http://www.foodsecurity.org/pubs.html#cooking

The USDA Community Food Security Assessment. Comprehensive guide to planning and implementing a CFA focused on Food Security, including potential data sources. http://ers.usda.gov/publications/efan02013/

Community Food Security Coalition: Four Key Steps to conducting a CFA.

http://www.foodsecurity.org/cfa/cfa_assessment.pdf

Assessment tools

Washington State University, King County Extension: Collection of Assessment and Observation Tools.

http://king.wsu.edu/foodandfarms/KCFFICommunityAssessment.html

University of Washington, Center for Public Health Nutrition: Assessment tools for communities, schools and worksites.

https://depts.washington.edu/teameval/eval_tools/community.shtml

Community Food Security Coalition: Survey tools.

http://www.foodsecurity.org/cfa_survey.html

Emory University, Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys: Tested assessment tools for restaurants, convenience stores, and grocery stores.

www.sph.emory.edu/NEMS/

University of California, Davis, Center for Advanced Study in Nutrition and Social Marketing: Links to assessment tools to measure nutrition environment.

http://socialmarketing-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/Tools/somarktools.php

CFA Successes

Sacramento Hunger Consortium: Examples of successes.

http://www.targethunger.com/Community-Food-Security/cfa.htm;

Community Food Security Coalition Brochure.

http://www.cfpa.net/brochure%20final%20pdf.pdf

Active Community to Improve our Nutrition Community Food Assessment: Potential Results of CFA.

http://www.csuinc.org/food.html

CFA Examples

Lents Food Assessment: http://www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?c=42292&a=121658

Diggable City: http://www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?c=42793

Whatcom Community Food Assessment: http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/cfa/