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Regional PlanFrom Foodsystems[edit] Regional Plan for California Certified Organic Farmers Member BusinessesGiven that the industrial food system doesn't serve West Oakland well, and also doesn't serve small organic growers, how can these communities work together? I mapped the member database for CCOF, and as you can see diverse agricultural products are available throughout the state. I looked for logical ways to cluster growers into geographically defined groups, and used a hierarchical linear clustering algorithm written by Christopher Brown to achieve this. In the Bay Area bioregion and nearby bioregions, there is great agricultural bounty that is currently not getting into West Oakland. I placed new distributors at the geographic center of each Bay Area cluster. This will create short supply chains with food changing hands only a couple of times between field and table, keeping prices affordable for the neighborhood and profitable for growers. If we replace the local and regional distribution infrastructure that has been dismantled over the past few decades, farmers will be able to make a decent living, and fresh, affordable food will be available to our cities.
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