FORMAL TITLE: Creating High Value Market Opportunities for California’s Small- and Mid-Scale Meat Producers. (USDA AMS Grant #AM21RFSPCA1023-00)
PROJECT GOAL: Develop regional partnerships and supply chains in two regions of California, and the information tools to support them.
DESCRIPTION: Our July 2021 UC Davis Food Systems Lab (FSL) study derived from interviews with over 30 supply chain stakeholders, a literature review and
The Food Systems Lab has grown from our group's roots in sustainable sourcing and regional landscape assessment into a program on developing and improving the information management aspects of food system sustainability, in addition to continuing our core research areas. The primary focus of this cross-cutting informatics work is to improve how sustainability can be defined, measured, and operationalized by improving information management and connectivity among complex webs of challenges, data, and actors.