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Planning for Climate-Resilient Urban Food Systems: Baltimore and Beyond Roni Neff, PhD Rneff1@jhu.edu Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future www.jhsph.edu/clf November 10, 2015 CLIMATE CHANGE URBAN FOOD Initiative Defining Resilience

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CLIMATE CHANGE URBAN FOOD Initiative

Planning for Climate-Resilient Urban Food Systems: Baltimore and Beyond

Roni Neff, PhD Rneff1@jhu.edu Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future www.jhsph.edu/clf November 10, 2015

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Defining Resilience

Not:

Sustainability Emergency Response Food security The ability to absorb, respond to, recover from and adapt more successfully to adverse events (IOM)

Source: COPE-WELL Project

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Assets

  • Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project
  • Baltimore Food Policy Initiative

– 60+ food system stakeholders – Mayoral support – Food system innovation

  • City-university partnership
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  • 23% food insecure
  • 25% in food deserts
  • 19-year life

expectancy gap

Baltimore Food System

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Baltimore Uprising

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Key Vulnerabilities Revealed in Uprising

  • No coordinated system for response

– Need food-related “chain of command” and procedures; incorporate into emergency

  • perations

– System for organizing food requests, donations

  • Protections for retail, food delivery

– Curfew hindered deliveries

  • Loss of $ for businesses on tight margins
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Food System Resilience Plan - 1

With Baltimore Office of Sustainability, Food Policy Initiative

  • Community engagement
  • Review other food plans (28); emergency plans (18)
  • Background

– Overview of city food system – Mapping/inventory assets – Connections to other city plans

  • Existing hazard mitigation

– Interviews with food system stakeholders

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Food System Resilience Plan -2

HAZARD ASSESSMENT

  • Flooding and coastal

hazards

  • Precipitation variability and

extreme heat

  • Wind
  • Civil unrest
  • Terrorism and cyber attack
  • Pandemic

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

  • Damage to buildings
  • Loss of electricity,

telecommunications, Internet

  • Damage to transport

networks within/outside city

  • Food or resource

shortages/price rises

  • Food contamination
  • Worker/resident inability to
  • r fear of travel
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Food System Resilience Plan – 3

Emergency Preparedness

  • Procedures, contacts
  • Collaboration/communication between city

agencies, community organizations, businesses

  • Enhancing existing efforts
  • Prioritize food; security for food stores
  • Info for communities – food access, food safety
  • Emergency food/water sites
  • Regional cooperation
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Food System Resilience Plan – 4

Strategies, Actions

  • Strategies and actions
  • “No regret” actions

– Strengthen food access – Food recovery – Support for renewable energy – Strengthen local/regional food supply

  • Implementation, maintenance, evaluation
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Beyond Baltimore

  • Developing indicators for urban food system

pre-event functioning /preparedness

  • Share framework
  • Networking beyond Baltimore
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Thanks

  • Kristin Baja, Baltimore City Office of Sustainability
  • Holly Freishtat and Alice Huang, Baltimore City

Food Policy Initiative

  • Other partners: Daniel Barnett, PhD, Judith

Mitrani-Reiser, PhD, Juliana Vigorito, Diana Reighart, Lauren Walsh, Lindsay Beattie

  • Funding: Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable

Future (www.jhsph.edu/clf ); 21st Century Cities Fund – Johns Hopkins University

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Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

www.jhsph.edu/clf

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Main messages

  • 1. Resilience: the ability to absorb, respond to,

recover from and adapt more successfully to adverse events (IOM)

  • 2. Food systems are vulnerable; resilience

planning is a must.

  • 3. Resilience planning: Community engagement,

assess hazards/vulnerabilities, emergency planning, strategies, ACTION, evaluation.