Creating a Food System Report Card to Advance the Minnesota Food System

Abstract

Poster AbstractThe Minnesota Food Charter is a roadmap to improve access to healthy, affordable, and safe food. It proposes 99 specific strategies to guide statewide planning and action to change the food system. A report card to monitor the Minnesota food system is one component of this initiative, but there is a paucity of literature to guide its development. To bridge this gap, a shared measurement action team (SMAT) was created to recommend indicators that could be used to monitor the state of the Minnesota food system, as well as to advance place-based food systems that support unique communities statewide. SMAT established a cross-sector team, created team priorities, developed a theory of change, identified criteria to judge potential indicators, and proposed indicators to be monitored statewide. In this poster, researchers and practitioners can learn about the process of selecting indicators that support the creation of a sustainable, economic, ecological, and equitable food system, and the challenges that arose during these discussions. One challenge * Liana R. N. Schreiber, MPH, RDN, is a research scientist at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) who focuses on food access. She is passionate about using evaluation as a change agent and engaging stakeholders to develop evaluation plan with actionoriented results. At MDH, Liana has collaboratively developed evaluation materials and a database to capture statewide changes in policy and systems, and environmental changes related to improving food access and active living and decreasing tobacco use. She also co-leads a cross-sector team developing indicators to monitor changes in the Minnesota food system. She can be contacted at Liana.Schreiber@state.mn.us.

Developing a food system indicators database to facilitate local food systems assessments: Using a scoping review approach

“…Reports or articles with specific suggestions on metrics to measure food system outcomes also exist (Campbell et al, 2022;Rodman-Alvarez & Colasanti, 2019). However, little information exists on standardized metrics or indicators to inform routine monitoring of community food systems (Schreiber et al, 2019). Furthermore, Ludden et al (2018) highlight the need for continued development of metrics systems for our food systems.…”

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“…Reports or articles with specific suggestions on metrics to measure food system outcomes also exist Rodman-Alvarez & Colasanti, 2019). However, little information exists on standardized metrics or indicators to inform routine monitoring of community food systems (Schreiber et al, 2019). Furthermore, Ludden et al (2018) highlight the need for continued development of metrics systems for our food systems.…”