Support nonprofits solving food justice and access issues in Dallas with grant writing support and providing creative financing options.
The City will provide technical assistance with grant writing, informational resources on funding opportunities and other creative financing options to nonprofits who are working on initiatives related to food security, child or senior hunger.
Since there's no place to put all these, i'm going to drop what I think should be included in the food section: Food
1. Support food producers and businesses growing or sourcing local and regenerative foods
a. Collaborate with existing organizations in the local agriculture space to find funding to offer free educational programming in regenerative and sustainable farming
techniques so that producers are prepared for success.
b. Convert dining at all city-affiliated institutions to provide food from sustainable and
local sources.
c. Support businesses switching to sourcing locally grown food.
2. Improve working conditions of all public sector food service workers in the city of Dallas
a. Establish liveable wages and compensation for all public sector food and agricultural workers.
3. Become a leader in the global sustainable food movement
a. Sign onto and implement recommendations from the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact.
4. Quantify the benefits of implementing regenerative agriculture techniques and ensuring communities’ access to healthy food
a. Create a land use plan that considers the relationship between regenerative
agriculture and carbon sequestration.
b. Conduct a cost-benefit analysis that demonstrates the full environmental, health,
social, and economic impacts related to access to fresh produce/healthy foods.
5. Distribute food equitably in all communities and end food deserts
a. Establish city-owned grocery stores in food deserts that transition into a
community-owned and cooperatively managed model.
b. Create further incentives for affordable grocery stores to open in food deserts.
6. Protect and enable secure access and tenure to land for community gardens
a. Pass a resolution to clarify that no platting application is required for people wishing
to establish community gardens on private property, school property, religious
establishment property, or other privately owned community property.
b. Pass a resolution that overrides any existing local HOA regulations preventing private and community gardens.
c. Create a land trust with existing public land wherein neighborhoods can buy back
unused properties to use for socially and environmentally beneficial purposes.
d. Create a lease program for city owned land wherein community members can apply to lease lots for food production.
II agree with Molly Beyer.