Post-COVID
- Held a 2025 California Food Policy Council Convening of food policy councils and food systems alliances with information-sharing around Food is Medicine, Good Food Purchasing Policy, Food Hubs and Land Access.
- Connected food systems with economic development through the California Jobs First program to create High Ride Jobs, leading to the creation of the Central Coast Food Commons, a six-county community of practice.
- CAFPC commissioned a statewide policy analysis on how to better support local food policy councils, with recommendations to strengthen funding, collaboration, member engagement, and shared infrastructure across the network.
COVID
- CAFPC shifted its annual report from a Sacramento-only legislative tracker into a collaborative statewide food policy report, highlighting local council implementation, regional innovation, and shared learning across 28 member councils representing more than 70% of Californians.
- CAFPC members helped defend farmers’ markets as essential public food infrastructure during COVID-19, supporting best-practice guides, trainings, roundtables, and advocacy to keep markets open safely.
- Amplified the Catch Together funding support statewide, keeping fishermen in business during COVID and leading to Indigenous fish processing opening in Del Norte.
2013-2019
- Published annual state food and agriculture legislative trackers/scorecards, helping connect local food policy councils to Sacramento advocacy.
- Tracked and supported major wins on school meals, CalFresh access, food donation, urban agriculture, farmer equity, farmland conservation, and food waste reduction.
- Founded in 2013 by the Oakland Food Policy Council, Richmond Food Policy Council, San Francisco Food Security Task Force, and San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, who were the first four local policy bodies to ratify CAFPC’s guiding principles.
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