Offer Food Support and Food Sovereignty by investing $17,780,000 for the survival of our most vulnerable residents. Food insecurity has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and the climate crisis that is making it harder and harder for BIPOC producers to grow food for local communities. Recommendations include funding to:
Increase the local capacities for food producers and distributors to reach the communities who are locked out of access to nutritious and culturally specific food.
Deliver coordinated and cooperatively-owned and -managed solutions that can increase access to food for our communities by supporting the full farm-to-school and farm-to-table food ecosystem, particularly for culturally-specific food.