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The Vermont Food Security Roadmap to 2035 guides our way to a future when all Vermonters will be food secure. Vermont has the tools, knowledge, and resources to create food security and ensure that every person living here has the food they want and need to be healthy and nourished.
Our time to act is now
The Roadmap is a collective effort of the Farm to Plate Network, researchers, partner organizations, and Vermonters who contributed their personal expertise regarding food security. Development of the Roadmap took place over 24 months and involved over 600 people.
Explore the Vermont Food Security: Roadmap to 2035 using the Resources provided below.
Ensure Everyone Has the Food They Need
The Roadmap to 2035 provides shared action strategies that put us on the road to food security. Equitable food security for Vermonters is entwined with strengthening Vermont agriculture so that we have a secure, reliable, and resilient food supply in times of emergency. Successful routes to food security also depend on related efforts beyond the scope of the Roadmap, such as increasing affordable housing statewide, reducing the cost of childcare, providing livable wage jobs, and others.
The Roadmap is organized under three goals, each essential to achieving food security in Vermont. Explore the objectives and strategies that lead to each goal.
- Goal G: Government ensures food security for all in Vermont
- Goal A: Vermont farms have the resources to be resilient
- Goal C: Communities have the tools to support food security
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Goal G: Government ensures food security for all in Vermont
The only entity in Vermont with the authority and capacity to implement changes at the scale required is our state government.
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G1: The State guarantees Vermonters have the necessary financial resources to m…
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G2: Access 100% of federal funding available for Vermonters by completing the s…
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G3: Create an Office of Food & Nutrition Security and clarify legislative juris…
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G4: Create a food security emergency response system in Vermont
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G5: Ensure consistent, dignified access to nourishing, adequate, culturally res…
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G6: Invest in Vermont’s town and village infrastructure
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G7: Make impactful investments in transportation in rural and urban Vermont
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G8: Utilize the health care system to identify and alleviate food insecurity
Goal A: Vermont farms have the resources to be resilient
Vermont’s farmers are essential. Their services to Vermont residents encompass food production as well as ecological and social functions such as flood mitigation, carbon sequestration, and cultural stewardship.
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A1: Provide direct, easy-to-access financial support to farmers who provide ess…
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A2: Accelerate the permanent conservation of Vermont’s agricultural lands as wo…
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A3: Provide essential and urgently needed investments in agricultural supply-ch…
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A4: Establish easier and equitable access to farmland and on-farm infrastructure
Goal C: Communities have the tools to support food security
Collaborative community efforts can expand access to food and knowledge of resources and ensure that the needs of all Vermonters are met
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C1: Integrate food access into town plans across Vermont
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C2: Expand local collaboration for effective delivery of daily and emergency fo…
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C3: Improve local food access while working on full food security in Vermont
Vermont Food Security Resources
Vermont Food Security: Roadmap to 2035
Our Shared Goal: In 2035, all Vermonters will be food secure. The Vermont Food Security Roadmap to 2035 guides our way to that future. Vermont has the tools, knowledge, and...
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Transportation Barriers to Food Access in Vermont: Impacted Populations Report
As part of the development of a Food Security Action Plan in Vermont, Maple Mountain Consulting was contracted to conduct a study of transportation-related barriers to accessing healthy and local...
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Transportation Barriers to Food Access in Vermont: Assessment and Research
As part of the development of a Vermont Food Security Plan (Priority Strategy 24), Maple Mountain Consulting was contracted to conduct research on transportation-related barriers to accessing healthy and local...
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Local Planning for Food Access
This toolkit focuses on improving food access through municipal and regional plans. It includes information on the planning process, explores the way that food access relates to other topics that are already being addressed through local planning, provides suggested strategies to include, and presents successful examples from around the state.
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