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There are many approaches to addressing the problems of hunger and food insecurity, including hunger awareness, hunger relief, food justice, right to food, and food sovereignty. This toolkit helps individuals, communities, businesses, and organizations explore how their activities support improving food access, and how they can adapt their work or partner with organizations that use other approaches.

Over the past few years, the Farm to Plate Network Local Food Access Planning Task Force has brought together a wide variety of expertise on how communities and municipalities can work to increase food access. Our project team is making ourselves available for one-on-one consultations with communities who are starting to think through a food access project -- whether that’s starting a community garden or farm, helping your food shelf connect with local producers, supporting home food production, or any other innovative strategies you’re thinking of.

Best practices and tips for implementing health and safety measures. The Governor’s Executive Order 01-20, as amended, include restrictions that apply to food and lodging establishments during the COVID-19 emergency. ACCD has developed a business FAQ for how the Executive Order applies.

FoodFinder is a safe, secure and award-winning mobile and web app that gives food insecure children and their families a way to find free food assistance programs quickly.