CIVIC-PG Track B: Community Food Mobilization in Chicago

芝加哥以食品研究为中心的试点项目(ChiFood-RCPP)解决了黑人、土著和有色人种社区(BIPOC)食品从业者确定的一个紧迫的研究需求：如何重组食品生产、分配和消费系统，以集中他们的愿望，创造公平获得营养和文化肯定的食品的机会，同时自主决定他们在食品系统中工作的规模和范围。试点项目使用良好食品采购倡议(GFPI)，这是芝加哥和库克县都采用的政策平台，作为当地公共机构、BIPOC生产商和工人规划实现这些目标的路径的工具。该小组将在社会、地理和数据科学以及设计和管理方面进行研究，以调查创新公共采购程序的程序，同时纳入不同的价值观以及社会、经济和环境目标。ChiFood-RCPP推进多学科研究，以建立获得基本资源和服务的途径，以满足社区需求。试点将发现并测试通过与主要利益攸关方合作，通过粮食政策工作实现公平目标的途径。美国各地的研究人员和从业者联盟可以在食品价值链上的不同参与者中复制这些试点方法。几十年来，黑人、土著和有色人种(BIPOC)活动人士一直批评塑造食品市场和政策的价值观、文化和基础设施延续了食品生产者和消费者在获得食品、食品、经济利益和健康成果方面的种族差异。垂直整合的食品企业主导着食品供应链，它们利用知识和资本运营，以利用大规模的规模经济，这限制了BIPOC所有的小型企业在公平竞争环境中竞争的能力。该项目通过探索和开发以BIPOC食品从业者、膳食接受者和倡导者的目标为中心的数据和模型，解决食品系统中的不对称问题。它将这些资源交到他们和采购官员手中，以确保研究结果具有相关性、可操作性和自我可持续性。研究人员将探索1)将不同利益相关者的价值观、意义和愿景纳入食品体系转型的机制；2)促进公平的当地食品供应链发展的数据和模型；3)网络、政策和参与性结构的原型，以使BIPOC食品社区(生产者、工人、企业家、食客)参与到文化肯定和规模适当的战略中；以及4)系统化包容性食品体系文化的框架和路径路线图，以尊重多种价值观和做法，提供市场渠道灵活性，并指导社区食品动员目标。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的响应-轨道B-弥合基本资源和服务以及社区需求之间的差距-是NSF、国土安全部和能源部的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Chicagoland Food Research-Centered Pilot Project (ChiFood-RCPP) addresses a pressing research need identified by communities of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) food practitioners: how to restructure the food production, distribution and consumption system to center their aspirations of creating equitable access to nourishing and culturally-affirming foods, while self-determining the scale and scope of their work in the food system. The pilot project uses the Good Food Purchasing Initiative (GFPI), a policy platform adopted in both the City of Chicago and Cook County, as a vehicle for local public institutions, BIPOC producers and workers to chart pathways to achieve these goals. The team will conduct research in social, geographic and data sciences along with design and management, to investigate processes for innovating public procurement processes, while incorporating diverse values, and social, economic and environmental objectives. ChiFood-RCPP advances multi-disciplinary research to build access to essential resources and services that meet community needs. The pilot will uncover and test pathways to operationalize equity goals through food policy work, in partnership with key stakeholders. Coalitions of researchers and practitioners throughout the U.S. can replicate these pilot approaches with diverse participants across the food value chain. For decades, Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) activists have leveled critiques that the values, culture and infrastructures shaping food markets and policies perpetuate racial disparities in food producers’ and consumers’ access to food, foodways, economic benefits and health outcomes. Vertically-integrated food businesses dominate the food supply chain, operating with knowledge and capital to play on massive economies of scale, which limit the ability of small and BIPOC-owned businesses to compete on level playing fields. This project addresses asymmetries in the food system by exploring and developing data and models centered on the goals of BIPOC food practitioners, meal recipients and advocates. It places these resources in their and procurement officials' hands to ensure research findings are relevant, actionable and self-sustainable. Researchers will explore 1) mechanisms for incorporating diverse stakeholders’ values, meanings and visions into food systems transformation; 2) data and models that advance equitable local food supply chain development; 3) prototypes of network, policy and participatory structures to engage BIPOC food communities (producers, workers, entrepreneurs, eaters) in culturally-affirming, scale-appropriate strategies; and 4) a roadmap of frameworks and pathways to systemize an inclusive food system culture that honors a plurality of values and practices, offers market channel flexibility and guides community food mobilization goals. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.