Local Food System Key Terms

an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions

• Advocacy

• Food Commodity

• Food Miles

• Local Foods

may be either raw agricultural commodities or processed commodities, provided that they are the forms that are sold or distributed for human consumption and ingested for nutrient properties

• Local Foods

• National School Lunch Program

• Food Commodity

• Advocacy

areas with limited access to healthy food

• Food Deserts

• Head Start

• GMO's

• Food Security

provides USDA Foods to income eligible households living on Indian reservations, and to American Indian households residing in approved areas near reservations or in Oklahoma

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Food Security

• Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDIR)

• Organic Certification

a mile over which a food item is transported from producer to consumer, as a unit of measurement of the fuel used to do this

• Food Systems

• Food Miles

• Food Secuirty

• Food Deserts

Consistent access to enough safe, nutritious food for an active, healthy life, without resorting to emergency food programs, scavenging, or stealing

• Food Security

• Food System

• GMO's

• Local Food

a complex and interconnected processes involved in keeping people fed

• Food System

• GMO's

• Food Miles

• Social Entrepreneur

genetically modified organisms refer specifically to foods where the DNA has been modified by technology

• FDIR

• SNAP

• Organic Certification

• GMO's

gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, especially, carbon dioxide and methane

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Head Start

• Food Security

• Advocacy

a federally funded, comprehensive preschool program designed to meet emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs of three- and four-year olds and their families

• Social Entrepreneur

• Local Foods

• Food Marketing

• Head Start