Community Food Security & Food Access

Community Food Security means that all residents can obtain a safe, affordable, and nutritionally adequate diet through a food system that maximizes social justice and community participation in problem solving and decision-making.

Promoting food security can result in community and economic revitalization, a cleaner environment, lower energy use, urban greening, crime prevention, dietary improvement, plus farmland and family farm preservation. Food can be a great connector, and when people connect to one another, they can make great change in their own places.

Reading and Resources:

Find out more by visiting the Community Food Security Coalition’s website.
Read about Growing a Community Food System, a report by the Tahoma Food Group.
See what a sustainable food and agricultural system might look like – the Vivid Picture Project envisions a future for food in California and beyond.
Civil Eats promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities.