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CommunityFood.com has been developed by the Community Alliances of Interdependent AgriCulture (CAIA) in partnership with the non-profit organization, Food Routes Network, to provide an affordable, practical presence for products created by community-friendly food businesses and family-farm operations.
CommunityFood.com and it’s Food Routes Network-developed sister site, Foodroutes.org, support and promote community-based, local food systems that are ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just through affordable and targeted information, marketing, finance, and technical assistance.
The mission of these two websites is to serve the information, networking, marketing and purchasing needs of sustainable-food-and-farming activists, community-food enterprises, farm-and-ranch cooperatives and associations, and the food-concerned public. We do this by creating a comprehensive web-based resource center, on line resource directories, and a marketplace. The marketplace helps agricultural and rural-based businesses expand market share through an on-line trading community using the CommunityFood storefront, classifieds, and auction markets.
Among other functions, the two websites provide accurate and up-to-date information on sustainable food and farming, searchable directories for locally grown food and sustainable ag resources, action alerts, and opportunities to purchase online. A designated press area provides information for the media, policy makers, researchers, and educators.
The purpose of CAIA is to enable people to create food and farming systems that improve and sustain ecological, economic, and social health through systemic, community-based, self-organizing governance. CAIA’s partners nationwide utilize a unique local organizing model requiring the active participation and collaboration of all food system stakeholders, from workers and farmers to food processors, distributors, consumers, and environmentalists.
Food Routes Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing strategic communications and evaluation tools and information to on-the-ground advocates who are working to build awareness of, and support for, sustainable farming and local food systems. The Food Routes Network strategic communications programs include Foodroutes.org, along with national polling research, message development, "buy local" campaign development, and implementation strategies for state and local food system policies funded by the Farm Bill.
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