Community Food Assessments
Community and statewide assessments help us to understand our food system at local, regional and state levels. On this page, you will find short descriptions and links to assessment tools and reports related to community food systems. We encourage you to use these reports and resources to better understand your local food system and ways to address food system gaps by leveraging your local food assets.
All Idaho
ALICE — Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. ALICE workers educate our children, keep us healthy, and make our quality of life possible, yet do not earn enough to support their own families. United For ALICE is a grassroots movement stimulating a fresh, nonpartisan national dialogue about how to reverse the trend and improve conditions for this growing population of families living paycheck to paycheck. Visit the UnitedForALICE.org Research Center – a one-stop source for exploring the latest ALICE data, on a national scale down to the county level in Idaho and other states.
Northern Idaho
In Bonners Ferry, a SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis examined the internal and external factors facing the community’s food system.
- SWOT approach helps focus group analyze the local food system in Bonners Ferry
- Journal of the NACAA_ Using a SWOT Analysis to Analyze and Set Priorities for a Community Food System
Contact
Kate Painter, University of Idaho Extension, Boundary County – kpainter@uidaho.edu
Southern Idaho
Central Idaho
Eastern Idaho
Do you know of another Idaho food assessment? Let us know and we’ll post it here!