#7: Create leadership development pathways for a diverse body of community experts to advocate and guide good food systems initiatives, networks, and policy.
#8: Increase the collective power of local food councils and other community-driven advocacy coalitions to influence policy.
For more information on how to get engaged:
Contact: Remi Harrington, remi@zoocityfood.org
Visit: https://zoocityfood.org/
The policy issue that we're hoping to address is the lack of consideration for longitudinal accountability within policy advocacy networks. We would like to see more farmer-led entities be at the forefront of advocating for ourselves through Food Policy Councils that we run. The current model fails us, and we would like to use the Good Food Charter as an example of how this happens.
Supporters should care because this has a direct impact on resource allocations. If we don’t change this then concepts like “sovereignty” that we fought to be included in policy will just become meaningless words that can be co-opted and used to redirect funds to White Dominant Institutions that say they are providing “supports/TA” for us to be “sovereign”.
Futures Session
Collaboration Infrastructure
Institutional
Statewide (Michigan)
As a result of participating in this roundtable participants will:
Deconstruct the MI Good Food Charter issue and identify how its being weaponized in local communities.
Learn how other farmers can develop a community specific accountability metric.
Explore options for collective organizing like the Ubuntu Network.
Learn how Zoo City started their LFPC and share how others can do it too.