Good Food For All Agenda

The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force’s “Good Food for All Agenda” offers Los Angeles a Good Food policy agenda and the steps to get there. The report includes 55 specific action steps around six priority action areas, with a recommendation to establish a Food Policy Council to help advance the agenda. The primary objective of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council is to catalyze implementation of the six priority action areas identified in the “Good Food for All Agenda”.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOCUS ON

Improving our region's food infrastructure and distribution system by connecting regional good food producers with all of Los Angeles's neighborhoods.

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Creating more and better food jobs so people can afford to buy healthy food and encouraging the creation of more food companies and small food enterprises.

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Keeping more local food dollars in our neighborhoods and the local economy by promoting regional supplies of food and protecting the rights of farm and food workers.

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Reducing diet related diseases and disparities in access to high quality foods by improving healthy food options in our schools and all of our neighborhoods, enrolling more residents in CalFresh and connecting these residents to good food, and re-establishing cooking traditions that celebrate the cultural diversity of Los Angeles.

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Greening our food supply by decreasing our food miles, encouraging more environmentally sustainable agricultural practices, expanding urban gardens in vacant lots, alleys, and pocket parks, and increasing composting throughout LA.

TOP RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDE

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Promote a Good Food Economy:
Work with partners to build a Regional Food Hub.
Conduct a foodshed assessment.
Develop a certification program to reward good food producers.
Link public investment to the creation of good jobs.

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Build a Market for Good Food

Develop local and sustainable food procurement policies in the City and County and encourage school districts and other food service providers to participate.

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Eliminate Hunger in Los Angeles

Increase enrollment in the Food Stamp Program.
Expand farmers market access to everyone.

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Ensure Equal Access to Good Food in Underserved Communities

Support the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative and develop innovative healthy food retail proposals.
Incorporate public health strategies into land use documents.

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Grow Good Food in Our Neighborhoods

Streamline permits and public land leases for community gardens.
Expand joint-use agreements with schools/community gardens.

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Inspire and Mobilize Good Food Champions

Create an online inventory of LA food system change efforts underway.

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Create a Los Angeles Regional Food Policy Council.