Resources

The CAFN resources page holds general food system resources that are relevant to CAFN’s members in Wake County. These general resources are divided into four categories: race equity, policy & planning, data, and media & blogs. For circle-specific resources pertaining to community gardens, economic development, food access, food procurement or recovery, farmland preservation, or integrating food and healthcare, please visit our circle pages and scroll down to the bottom of each page.

Race Equity

• Capital Area Food Network Statement for Racial Equity

• A Blueprint for Dismantling Systemic Racism: An Initiative of a Better Wake

• Equitable Food-Oriented Development: Building Community Power

• Food Justice Training Series (2 video recordings)

• Structural Racism and Health Implications

• White Narratives in Food Security

• Identifying and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems

• Conference: Rooted in Relationship – Power & Privilege in Food Systems

• University of Richmond, Mapping Inequality

• Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table

• Mismatched: Philanthropy’s Response to the Call for Racial Justice

• Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less

Policy & Planning

• 2023 Wake County Food Security Plan Update

  Informed by:

  • 2017 Wake County Food Security Plan

  • North Carolina Food System Resilience Strategy

  • Wake County Local Food Supply Chain and Food Hub Feasibility Study: Strategy and Action Plan

Data

• Capital Area Food Network 2020-2022 Report

• Living Wage Impacts: An Analysis of Food Security and Equity in Wake County, NC

• Wake County Food Insecurity Profile: 2020-2021

• Wake County Food Insecurity Profile: 2019-2020

• Research and Data Justice

  • Research Justice: a Strategic Framework to Achieve Self-determination for Marginalized Communities

  • Intro to Research Justice Toolkit

  • Research Justice: shifting from extractive study to humanized relationship

  • Research & Data Justice

  • Data for Black Lives

Media & Blogs

• Designing Better Local Food Systems – Wake County (Blog) - ncIMPACT Initiative

• Community Spotlight: Ruthie Wofford & the Capital Area Food Network (CAFN)