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Local farms, hospitals and universities urged to link up to reduce food insecurity and build climate resilience
Summary
At the North Texas Climate Symposium, urban‑ag advocates and academic researchers described programs—Restorative Farms, medically tailored groceries, institutional purchasing and a new city urban‑ag grant—aimed at scaling local food production, jobs and health interventions in Dallas's food‑desert neighborhoods.
Speakers at the symposium's agriculture panel urged three linked strategies to make Dallas's food system more resilient to climate stress and better for public health: scale local production, create institutional market demand, and train local workers.
Rebecca Seibert of the City of Dallas introduced the session and highlighted the city's urban agriculture plan and a new infrastructure support grant that awarded up to $10,000 per site to growers this year. Kelseyana (Kelsiana) Hollis Hansen, assistant professor at UT Southwestern, described medically…
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