Colleges and Universities, especially the nation’s land grant universities are a perfect laboratory for policies that support locally-grown and/or organic food supplies. The University of...
This Iowa county has a two-pronged policy approach to encourage the production and use of locally grown organic food. First, there is a property tax...
Farmers’ markets are for farmers directly selling what they produce. However, as the markets have proliferated, some retailers have been allowed to set up their...
The Berkeley School District passed a food policy requiring school cafeterias to serve organic foods to its 9,500 students. The policy explicitly makes a commitment...
This statute, enacted in 2000, is not being enforced until legal challenges are completed.… Read More
The ordinance is modeled after the language of the constitutional amendments passed in Nebraska and South Dakota that ban corporate farms in those states. Similar...
At one time more than 100 large cities nationwide require their employees to live within city boundaries. But over the last decade, some of these...
The drive for increased property tax revenue, and in some cases sales tax revenue, can lead local governments to make land use decisions that conflict...