New Report Highlights Farm to Food Assistance Model

The Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network (FLSN) released a new report, Farm to Food Assistance: A Model for Values-Based, Equity Centered Approaches to Transforming the Food System. This report is the culmination of four years of research, peer learning, and field building. The 47-page report makes the case for how farm to food assistance can contribute to the transformation of a food system from one that produces less nutritious food designed to produce wealth for a few, to one that produces food, health, and wellbeing for all. Authors explore how values-based, equity-centered farm to food assistance delineates the core values and strategies that move the food assistance system from charity to justice. The report also enumerates the most pressing challenges and offer recommendations for practitioners and supporters to advance the goals and outcomes of Farm to Food Assistance efforts across the country.