FEDERAL FOOD PURCHASING CAN MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES BETTER
Learn how leveraging federal food purchasing can help us create a just, healthy, resilient, and sustainable food system.
The Federal Good Food Purchasing Coalition is working to spur a more just, healthy, resilient, and sustainable food system through values-aligned food purchasing and food service at the federal level.
Values-aligned food service means that the government can be a leader in prioritizing these core values in its food purchasing and food service operations.
As the largest food purchaser in the world, the federal government has the opportunity and responsibility to ensure that its food purchasing advances, rather than undermines, the public good.
In the same way that federal energy procurement has accelerated the transition to clean energy across the US economy, food procurement can be a driver for the just, healthy, and sustainable food system we need.
FEATURED RESOURCES
COALITION STEERING COMMITTEE
OUR VALUES
Local & Community-Based Economies: Vibrant and resilient regional economies are a forum for communities to regain power in decision-making within their local food system and the land that supports it.
Valued Workforce: Farm and food chain workers have the right to freedom of association and to bargain collectively, as well as the right to livable wages and healthy and safe working conditions to ensure that food workers can live and work with dignity.
Environmental Sustainability: Environmentally sustainable farms and food businesses build healthy ecosystems by improving soil health, increasing biodiversity, and reducing the carbon and water footprint of food production; while advancing public health and worker safety.
Animal Welfare: Animal welfare encompasses all aspects of animals’ wellbeing, and high animal welfare is achieved when animals’ physical, mental, and behavioral needs are met throughout their lives.
Community Health & Nutrition: Supporting communities in shaping their food environment with culturally relevant, nourishing foods, improves health and wellbeing, ensures food sovereignty, and builds resilience to withstand and recover from economic and environmental disruptions.
Transparency & Accountability: Communities have full access to food, land, information, and decision-making power through transparent processes, allowing communities to engage with institutions in setting food justice goals.
Racial Equity: acknowledging and rectifying the structural barriers that prevent people of color from the opportunities and resources to thrive. Leadership is sought out from the communities that have been pushed to the margins when building alternatives. Self-determination for marginalized communities is essential to practice racial equity.
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