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Anchor Institutions and Food Resilience: A Multiple Streams Approach

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  • Cunningham, Naomi
  • Conner, David
  • Reynolds, Travis W.

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Anchor institutions (AIs) play an essential role in food system resilience. We utilize Kingdon’s multiple streams approach (MSA) to analyze AIs’ food system resilience activities in Vermont. Drawing on a series of focus groups to understand activities to foster food system resilience. Local food supply chains can be a source of resilience; barriers such as labor and infrastructure shortages can be overcome through greater use of local food processing and distribution. The MSA lens suggests that Covid-19 can serve as a focusing event, incentivizing investment and leveraging the national mood for greater consumption and support for local food.

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  • Cunningham, Naomi & Conner, David & Reynolds, Travis W., 2023. "Anchor Institutions and Food Resilience: A Multiple Streams Approach," International Journal on Food System Dynamics, International Center for Management, Communication, and Research, vol. 14(02), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ijofsd:346700
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.346700
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