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Annual Reports

2025 Annual Report

2024 Annual Report

2023 Annual Report

2022 Annual Report

2021 Annual Report

2020 Annual Report

AFPC Reports

Alaska Regional Food Business Center: AK Food Systems Baseline Assessment Reports. Kitchen Sync Strategies, Seattle, WA for Alaska Food Policy Council and Hawai’i Good Food Alliance. August 2024.

Alaska Regional Food Business Center: AK Food Systems Baseline Assessment Reports.

Alaska’s Sub-Regional Specific Analysis:

Southeast Alaska Area: Southeast Alaska Food Systems SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, Prepared by Jennifer Nu, Ecotrust, and the Southeast Sustainable Partnership (Spring 2025)

Alaska Regional Food Business Center: AK Food Systems Baseline Assessment Reports.

Alaska’s Sub-Regional Specific Analysis:

Kodiak Area: Our Food Sovereignty Plan, Prepared by Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Forum, a project of the Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute (Spring 2025)

How the Alaska “Food Hub” Network Can Best Move Forward. Ken Meter, Crossroads Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN for Alaska Food Policy Council. February 2024.

Alaska Food Security and Independence Task Force 2023 Report. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Food Policy Council, and Governor’s Task Force on Food Security and Independence Members.

Condensed Task Force Recommendations

2020-2022 USDA Regional Food System Partnership Project Report & Food Security Action Plan. Robbi Mixon, Rachael Miller, & Lisa Trocchia, with contributions from over 325 participants. September 2022.

Executive Summary & Action Plan (February 2023)

More AFPC Reports

Alaska Food Strategy Task Force (HB298)

Report: Part Two (2024)
Report: Part One (2023)

Rhodilola Rosea Market Opportunities in Alaska. Melissa Heuer. Spork Consulting on behalf of Alaska Food Policy Council and the Northwest Transition to Organic Production Program (2024)

2026 Rhodiola Rosea Market Opportunities Addendum

The Kenai Peninsula Food Systems Resilience Report: Impact From COVID and Severe Climatic Events. Courtney Long and Kaley Hohenshell. February 2023.

Kenai Peninsula Resilience Brief

Containerized Fruit Trees in the North -Stickleback Farm Report. Sundance Visser for the Alaska Food Policy Council. May 2022.

2021-2022 Alaska Food Security Investment Recommendations

Infographic Format

Potential Infrastructure Investments for Alaska-Grown Food. Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg. Crossroads Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN. September 18, 2018.

Alaska Food Policy Council Community Kitchen Table Discussions. Alaska Humanities Forum – Leadership Anchorage 20. Mike Catsi, Danielle Stickman, and Amy O’Connor. May 2017.

AFPC 2015 Food Security Recommendations. Alaska Food Policy Council. 2015.

AFPC Town Hall Meeting Reports: Palmer, Anchorage, Homer, Bethel, Fairbanks, Juneau, Nome. Alaska Food Policy Council. 2014.

Building Food Security in Alaska. (Full Report) Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg. Crossroads Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN. July 28, 2014.

Building Food Security in Alaska- Executive Summary & Recommendations.

2012 Food System Assessment. Virgene Hanna, Rosyland Frazier, Khristy Parker, and Irena Ikatova. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. September 2012.

Food in Alaska: Food systems, security, and policy in the 49th state. Deirdre Helfferich, 2012

Reports, Studies, & Technical Documents

Alaska seafood re-shoring analysis: Alaska/China/Washington processing costs comparison. McKinley Research Group, LLC, & High Peak Strategy. (2025, June). Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation. (2025, June)

Mat-Su Food Security Assessment. Mat-Su Health Foundation. (2025)

Gulf of Alaska Fisheries Limitation Study: Author: Courtney Carothers and Brett Watson, Prepared by: Chloey Cavanaugh. (2024)

We All Eat: Preparing for the Future Through Food: Author: Lunia E. Oriol Master of Urban and Regional Planning | Transformative Food Systems Fellow Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (2024) Executive Summary of report here.

Food Security and Sovereignty in Alaska Native Communities: Recommendations for Improving Language and Inclusivity in Food and Agriculture Programming. Authors – Heidi Rader Professor of Extension, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Tribes Extension Project Director and Glenna Gannon Assistant Professor of Sustainable Food Systems, University of Alaska Fairbanks.(2024)

Alaska Supply Chain Analysis: Baseline Report. Submitted by Dewberry Alaska to FEMA HQ. (September 2023)

Agritourism in Alaska. Data source: 2017 Census of Agriculture data. Special data request. Contact: Claudia Schmidt, Penn State: cschmidt@psu.edu. (2023)

“Alaskanizing” Salmon-Safe Standards: A Model for the Co-existence of Salmon and Agriculture. Sundance Visser. September 2022.

Feasibility Report: Organics Collection and Processing within The Municipality of Anchorage. Published by Municipality of Anchorage, Solid Waste Services, Prepared by Debra Darby Manager, Organics Sustainability Solutions Tetra Tech. December 2021.

Tanana Chiefs Conference Regional Food Assessment and Recommendations. Prepared for TCC by Agnew::Beck Consulting. September 2021

A Market Management-Centered Approach to Building Farmers Markets in Alaska. Robbi Mixon. August 2021.

Alaska Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Facts Report. Published by State of Alaska Dept. of Health and Social Services. Published November 2020

Transportation Barriers and Recommendations: Lessons learned from building a food hub in Southeast Alaska. Colin Peacock and Jennifer Nu, Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition. October 2020.

Growing Local Food: A survey of the commercial producers on the southern Kenai Peninsula. Prepared by Kyra Wagner & Nicole Arevalo for Homer Soil & Water Conservation District. 2018.

Buying Local Food: A survey of southern Kenai Peninsula restaurants and institutions. Prepared by Kyra Wagner & Nicole Arevalo for Homer Soil & Water Conservation District. 2018.

Southcentral Alaska Agriculture & Food Hub Market Analysis. Melissa Heuer. Spork Consulting. January 2018.

Potential Infrastructure Investments for Alaska-Grown Food. Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg. Crossroads Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 18, 2018

Central Peninsula Agricultural Market Analysis. Melissa Heuer. Spork Consulting, contracted by Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District. April 2017.

Alaska Seafood Purchasing Guide for Schools, an Alaska Seagrant Publication by Jennifer Nu, Andrea Bersamin and Quentin Fong, 2015

Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework: How to Assess the Arctic From An Inuit Perspective. Summary and Recommendations and Technical Report. Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska, October, 2015.

AFPC Community Food Emergency & Resilience Template, 2015.

Demand for Local Produce in Interior Alaska: 2014 Market Study. Christien Nguyen. Alaska Cooperative Development Program, Fairbanks, AK, 2014.

Building Food Security in Alaska. Executive Summary & Recommendations. Ken Meter and Megan Phillips Goldenberg. Crossroads Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN. July 28, 2014.

Southeast Alaska Food System Assessment. Lia Heifetz. Southeast Conference, Juneau, AK. 2014.

Sitka Community Food Assessment Indicators Report, 2014

2012 Food System Assessement – Final Report 11_19_12 Virgene Hanna, Rosyland Frazier, Khristy Parker, and Irena Ikatova. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. September 2012.

Food in Alaska: Food systems, security, and policy in the 49th state. Deirdre Helfferich, 2012

Food Security in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: A report on local seafood, consumer preferences, and community needs. Philip A. Loring, S. Craig Gerlach, and Hannah L. Harrison. WERC-HD Occasional Report No.01, Gamble, J.B. (ed.), Human Dimensions Lab at the Water and Environmental Research Center: Fairbanks, Alaska. 2012

Taste of Alaska Challenge 2011. Survey results from the Alaska State Fair, published by the Alaska Farmland Trust. December 2011.

Anchorage and the Local Food System. Report by the Center for Community Engagement and Learning, UAA, Alaska Food Policy Council. June 2011.

Assessing Food Security in Fairbanks, Alaska: A Survey Approach to Community Food Production. Senior thesis by Charles Caster, UAF. May 2011.

Sustainable Livestock Production in Alaska Workshop Report. JE Rowell, MP Shipka, JA Greenberg, SC Gerlach, and T Paragi, editors. UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences. October 2011.

Food Security in Arctic Alaska: A Preliminary Assessment. Richard Caulfield. Chaire Condition Autochtone, Université de Laval, Canada. 2000.

Articles

Mucioki, M., Kelly, S., Holen, D. et al. Gardening practices in Alaska build on traditional food system foundations. Agric Hum Values (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10652-6

Food In the Last Frontier: Inside Alaska’s Food Security Challenges and Opportunities. Elizabeth Hodges Snyder and Ken Meter. Environment, May-June 2015.

Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North: Part I. Development and Status of Northern Agriculture and Food Security. Kalb T. Stevenson, Lilian Alessa, Andrew D. Kliskey, Heidi B. Rader, Alberto Pantoja and Mark Clark. Arctic, Vol. 67 No. 3, September 2014.

Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North: Part II. Environmental, Geophysical, Biological and Socioeconomic Challenges. Kalb T. Stevenson, Heidi B. Rader, Lilian Alessa, Andrew D. Kliskey, Alberto Pantoja, Mark Clark and Jeffery Smeenk. Arctic, Vol. 67 No. 3, September 2014.

Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North: Part III. Meeting the Challenges of High-Latitude Farming. Kalb T. Stevenson, Heidi B. Rader, Lilian Alessa, Andrew D. Kliskey, Alberto Pantoja, Mark Clark and Jeffery Smeenk. Arctic, Vol. 67 No. 3, September 2014.

Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska: Food System Innovation and the Alaska Native Gardens of the 1930s through the 1970s. Philip A. Loring and S. Craig Gerlach. Ethnohistory 2010 57(2):183-199; DOI:10.1215/00141801-2009-060

From Crisis to Cumulative Effects: Food Security Challenges in Alaska. David V. Fazzino, Philip A. Loring. In: NAPA Bulletin Special Issue: The Global Food Crisis: New Insights into an Age-old Problem. Volume 32 issue 1, November 2009.

Webinars

The AFPC has a full catalog of webinars for you to choose from to keep you informed and engaged in our food system.

Alaska Food Festival & Conference Sessions

Other Resources

Alaska Farmers Markets Toolkit
USDA Food Hub Operator’s Toolkit, July 2025
Food Security and Emergency Preparedness, Cooperative Extension Service
Plants_Food and Medicine around us_2015 Ellen Tyler Parry, July 2015.
“Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder:“ Climate, Health, and Food Security in Alaska. May 2010. Philip A. Loring, doctoral thesis, UAF. May 2010.
Study Module: Food Traditions and Food Systems in Rural Alaska (Module 10, Land and Environment II, Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies 312. S. Craig Gerlach, Laura Henry, and Amy M. Turner. University of the Arctic. 2008.
“100 Years of Agriculture in Alaska,” Agroborealis, Vol.30, No.1, Spring 1998.
The Classroom Indoor Garden
Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP)
- Find LAMP toolkits
- Interactive LAMP Navigator Tool
Crop Insurance
- From 2017-20, AgriLogic partnered with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Agriculture; Alaska Farm Bureau, Inc.; Alaska Food Policy Council; Alaska Center for Energy and Power; and the Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation to reach Alaskan farmers and ensure information relevant to Alaska’s unique needs.

Partner Directories

The AFPC works in partnership with community leaders and organizations across the state. Use these directories to research and connect with others in Alaska’s food systems! Contact us to get added to the list.

Alaska Manufacturing Association Directory

Alaska Manufacturing Association exists to connect, support, and amplify Alaska’s makers, producers, and suppliers. We’re building the go-to ecosystem for Alaska’s manufacturing economy—one where local businesses can grow, get noticed, and access the resources they need to thrive.

If you’re crafting products, sourcing materials, or delivering services to Alaska’s manufacturers, there’s a seat at the table for you here. Click the link to learn more about becoming a member and getting listed in the directory.

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Alaska Farmers Market Association: Market Directory

Statewide directory of Farmers Markets, farmstands, CSAs, and food hubs.

Mission Statement: To support and promote vibrant and sustainable farmers markets throughout Alaska.

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Kenai Local Food Connection: Kenai Peninsula Local Food Directory

Kenai Local Food Connection is an informal group of local food advocates, growers, parents, cooks, and friends. Some of us also work in positions dedicated to food and health. It’s a grassroots effort to forge connections within our community to increase access to local foods and knowledge about healthy eating.

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Food Bank of Alaska

There are 150 food pantries and food banks across Alaska that partner with the Food Bank of Alaska to support Alaskans in need of food resources. Find help here.

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Buy Alaska

Local First – Alaskans know how to look out for each other. When local businesses succeed, Alaska thrives.

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Intertribal Agriculture Council: American Indian Foods

American Indian Foods (AIF) is a program of the Intertribal Agriculture Council that began in 1998 under contract with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. The partnership was developed as a platform for American Indian food businesses to showcase their products and share Tribal cultures with the world.

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Fairbanks Economic Development Corporation: Interior Alaska Agriculture Map and Directory

FEDC facilitates the development of the Interior’s agriculture industry by assisting in broadening and stabilizing the Interior’s economic base and strengthening food security.

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