Community Food Disparities Coalition
Long-term solutions to the current food desert and food insecurities in Norfolk and surrounding areas.
The Community Food Disparities Coalition (CFDC) is a St. Paul’s Community Development Corporation initiative formed to provide strategies and resources that address food disparities within communities.
The purpose of the CFDC is to develop and implement long-term solutions to the current food desert, food insecurity and lack of food access for residents by identifying challenges, consequences, strategies, and resources that will have lasting and long-term community impact.
The CFDC will offer recommendations to include but not limited to:
Development of a Food Policy Council (FPC) to facilitate coordination, communication, and collaboration among food system stakeholders within and outside of local government;
Develop a partnership with and include key local government stakeholders in the planning process;
Encourage city departments to help develop a plan and determine how they can promote the plan’s recommendations;
Support the development of cross-appointed, intergovernmental food systems planning staff position, an intergovernmental food systems working group, or cross-pollinating working groups to bring ideas together;
Create partnerships with local foundations and organizations to leverage support for initial food systems planning pieces, also but leverage other funds for sustainability; and,
Balance aspirational goals with measurable goals to enable monitoring and evaluation over time.
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"Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part."
― Congressman John Lewis on movement building in Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
