M.U.R.P. Thesis 5

We All Eat: Leveraging food systems to enhance resilience in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

Lunia Oriol
The Matanuska-Susitna Valley (also known as “The Valley”) is a rapidly-growing region in Southcentral Alaska, located about 35 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska’s most populous city. The Valley is home to 30 diverse communities spanning a region the size of West Virginia. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough, its regional government, is updating its Comprehensive Plan for the first time in nearly twenty years. Due to changing weather patterns and climatic trends, the region is expected to become more suitable for agriculture, which could have positive implications for bolstering the food security of a state that depends on imports from the Lower 48.…