Cultivating Resilience: A Iowa Food System Blueprint that Advances the Health of Iowans, Farms and Communities is the result of multi disciplinary efforts including food system stakeholders across Iowa engaged in conversations about the future of food.

The objective of the Iowa Food System Blueprint is to measure the health of Iowa’s food system through a report card leading to recommendations for research, programs and policies to ensure a food system that supports healthier Iowans, communities, economies, and the environment. The Iowa Food System Blueprint has two parts:

1. Report card on the health of Iowa’s food system
2. Recommendations for Iowa’s food system