Food Insecurity is the lack of sufficient food access that cannot be met to a household's needs. In Solano County, the food insecurity rate is approximately 8.5%, which is lower than the national average as 22.0%. In the community, there is a lack of food supply. During the span of the pandemic, the need of food in either smaller or larger households are both majorly needed. With the shortage of food supply, it creates conflict because it effects some families who cannot receive as much food as other households whether its due to number of people or how much food is produced by farmers. When schools, businesses, and other companies that were forced to shut down for long periods of time had larger demands for the stomachs they had to feed or the income they brought into their homes
With there being smaller households in the community, some facilities provide smaller amounts of food due to other larger families in need. This can create conflict because it can put those families in need of more food in a bad situation during the pandemic and would have to either wait for more food from the facilities that schools were assigned to or look for other alternatives/resources that would still have a possibility of not providing as much.
For farmers, these effects their amount of work and demand from the county. Farmers during the 2020-2021 span were forced to work at same salary but with more hours to work to produce more food to sell and provide to the community. Throughout the span of the lockdown, many schools provided food to students and relied on farmers to have the material and water supply to grow crops for the public. From the end of the 2019-2020 school year to the 2020-2021 school year, the community relied on the school to have enough food to share to families, but in some cases, there were school that ran out of food and effected households who had to either wait or find other resources until there were more in stock of food. I think that this could be solved if the neighborhood or community could hold a monthly gardening activity in an accessible location for people to plant and take the necessary amount of food for their households.