CIVIC-PG Track B: Community Food Mobilization in Chicago

芝加哥食品研究中心试点项目（chiffood - rcpp）解决了黑人，土著和有色人种（BIPOC）食品从业者社区确定的紧迫研究需求：如何重组食品生产，分配和消费系统，以他们创造公平获取营养和文化肯定食品的愿望为中心，同时自主决定他们在食品系统中的工作规模和范围。该试点项目使用优质食品采购倡议（GFPI），这是芝加哥市和库克县采用的一个政策平台，作为当地公共机构、BIPOC生产商和工人制定实现这些目标的途径的工具。该团队将进行社会、地理和数据科学以及设计和管理方面的研究，以调查创新公共采购流程的过程，同时纳入不同的价值观，以及社会、经济和环境目标。chiffood - rcpp推进多学科研究，以建立获得满足社区需求的基本资源和服务的途径。该试点项目将与主要利益攸关方合作，发现并测试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）活动人士一直批评说，影响食品市场和政策的价值观、文化和基础设施使食品生产者和消费者在获取食品、食品方式、经济利益和健康结果方面的种族差异永续存在。垂直整合的食品企业主导着食品供应链，利用知识和资本发挥大规模经济效益，这限制了小型企业和bipoc拥有的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为中心的数据和模型，解决了食品系统中的不对称问题。它将这些资源交给它们和采购官员，以确保研究结果具有相关性、可操作性和可持续性。研究人员将探索1)将不同利益相关者的价值观、意义和愿景纳入粮食系统转型的机制；2)促进当地食品供应链公平发展的数据和模型；3)网络、政策和参与结构的原型，使BIPOC食品社区（生产者、工人、企业家、食客）参与文化肯定、规模适宜的战略；4)制定框架和途径路线图，使包容性粮食系统文化系统化，尊重多元化的价值观和做法，提供市场渠道灵活性，并指导社区粮食动员目标。该项目是对公民创新挑战项目（track b）的回应，旨在弥合基本资源与服务和社区需求之间的差距，是国家科学基金会、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.