About 

The Pittsburgh Area Food Policy council is a collection of 12-20 dedicated community activist working to make Pittsburgh's food system sustainably abundant, accessible and equitable to all citizens. Policy councils are common in social activism, ithey can work on a state level, regional level or city level and they can be an offical government sector or a small grass roots movement of community members.

The PFPC is the latter, there vision is for a food system that benefits our community, our economy and our environment. By working with the City of Pittsburgh's commitment to the development of a coordinated municipal food and urban agriculture policy, and articulating the intention of establishing a Food Policy Council populated by key stakeholders who can provide the City with advice, momentum and support on issues related to food production, food access, food distribution, health/nutrition education and urban planning.

Collaboration

The Pittsburgh Area Food Policy Council is ground zero for collaboration on food-related issues in this region. To get involved with the food policy council visit the google group Food Policy Council or email food-policy-council_pittsburgh@googlegroups.com

Currently the council is in the finale stages of writing a Food Policy Charter for the city of pittsburgh and collaborating with Jason Kambitsis from city planning on a re-write of Pittsburgh's agricultural zoning ordinances

To learn more bout Food Policy Councils in general visit http://www.foodsecurity.org/FPC/ or simply browse this wiki and the Project: Food Policy Council folder.

Members 

The Pittsburgh Area Food Policy Council brings together a wide range of community activist, leaders and members. You do not have to be affiliated with a certain organization or groups to join the food policy council.

Currently at the table are people from:

Just Harvest

The East End Food Co-Op

The Pittsburgh Area Community Food Bank

The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture

Grow Pittsburgh

PSU Extension Cooperative, Allegheny County

and more...