Food Systems Lab

We live in a century in which climate change and other forces will cause increasingly challenging and disruptive events. Thus, actions to build resilience in our food supply chain are needed urgently. This white paper seeks to provide advocates, policymakers, and other interested Californians with a snapshot of challenges and opportunities in the meat processing sector, addressing specific needs of small- and mid-scale producers and their linked processors andmarketing systems, which seek to produce and sell high quality meat. It ends withrecommendations that we believe can support development of a promising sector of California’s agricultural economy while, at the same time, building resilience in our meat supply chain.