COVID-19 responses: Food policy councils are “stepping in, stepping up, and stepping back"

Anne Palmer, Abiodun Atoloye, Karen Bassarab, Larissa Calancie, Raychel Santo and Kristen Cooksey Stowers

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1

Abstract: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, food policy councils (FPCs) have emerged as a critical struc­ture for organizing community-based responses to multiple food system issues. Strong relationships with various food system stakeholders have proven essential in inspiring coordinated action. Using the early results of a Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future survey of FPCs (2020), we discuss some of the accomplishments and contributions that 118 FPCs have made toward addressing hunger and supporting producers, school food, food chain workers, racial equity, and resilience in the United States and in tribal nations.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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