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Build leadership skills to support local food systems. This course covers food system basics, facilitation, planning, and evaluation. Offered online or in person. Certificate awarded after completion.

The Resilient Food Systems (RFS) Certification is a process-based certification that increases capacity for food systems practitioners to develop skills for facilitation and strategic planning for preparing for disaster and developing more resilient practices across place-based food systems. Participants will learn a strategic-planning process and participate in hands-on activities and site visits to explore best practices for visioning techniques, scenarios and table-top exercises, conducting research and community food systems assessments, and design thinking and implementation, and evaluation. The workshop is offered as either a retreat for place-based communities to practice and learn simultaneously, or as a general workshop with practice activities for conducting the process in one's own community. s include activities and networking for