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The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems develops tools and resources for food and agricultural stakeholders across the country. Ahead, learn more about how we’re lending our law and policy expertise to build a more sustainable, just, and equitable food system.

Food System Worker Law and Policy Project
Exposing gaps in laws and policies that affect the health and safety of workers throughout the food chain.

Blueprint for a National Food Strategy
Examining the need for a cohesive national approach to food system regulation through legal and scholarly research.

Healthy Food Policy Project
Local level policy resources to increase access to healthy food.

Farm Bill Law Enterprise
Recommending policy solutions for farm bill legislation to better reflect the long-term needs of our society.

National Gleaning Project
Supporting gleaning organizations through legal and policy research to combat food waste and feed the hungry.

Farmers Market Legal Toolkit
Creating legal resources to build resilient and accessible farmers markets.

Housing and Employment Rights for VT Dairy Workers
Empowering immigrant farmworkers to understand their legal rights.

Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide
Helping farmers and food business owners adopt and communicate higher animal welfare standards.

Food Systems Resilience
Policy research to strengthen food systems against climate change and other hazards.

Labels Unwrapped
Enabling consumers and producers to navigate food label laws and make informed choices.

State Farm to School Policy Handbook
Helping to advance the farm-to-school food movement by monitoring and sharing legislative trends.

Farmland Access Legal Toolkit
Helping farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer, and conserve farmland.
Vermont Legal Food Hub
Connecting farmers, food entrepreneurs, and food system organizations with free legal services.

Extension Legal Services Initiative
Answering farmers’ and food producers’ pressing legal questions about food safety compliance.

Growing Biodiversity
Assisting plant breeders to preserve biodiversity by putting innovations in the public domain.

Farm to Institution Policy Project
Identifying and analyzing policies in New England that compel state institutions to purchase local foods.