Allied Organizations

The Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems collaborates with a number of leading national organizations to accomplish its mission. We have formal memorandums of agreement related to our various projects with the following organizations:

• American Farmland Trust, Inc. (Washington, D.C.)

•  Black Urban Growers (Virtual)

• Center for Environmental Farming Systems (a partnership of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the North Carolina                   Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and North Carolina State University)

•  Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (Johns Hopkins University)

•  eXtension Community, Local & Regional Food Systems Community of Practice (CLRFS CoP)

•  Farms to Grow, Inc. (Oakland, California)

• Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

•  Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia)

•  Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Iowa State University)

•  National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (Virtual)

•  Food Systems Initiative (University of Vermont)