2. OVERVIEW
• Background
• Timeline
• Mission
• Structure
• Food Policy Priorities & Action Plans

4. LAFPC TIMELINE
• 1996 to 1999- Food Security & Hunger Partnership
• September 2009- Mayor announces Los Angeles
Food Policy Task Force (LAFPTF)
• November 2009- 20 member LAFPTF convenes
• July 2010- LAFPTF Presents Good Food for All
Agenda to Mayor
• October 2010- “Good Food for All Agenda” Launch at
Taste of the LA Foodshed Celebration
• January 2011- 34 member Los Angeles Food Policy
Council convenes
• February 2011- First LAFPC Working Group meeting

5. WHAT IS GOOD FOOD?
Healthy Fair
Affordable Sustainable

6. MISSION
The Los Angeles Food Policy Council is a collaborative
network working to make Southern California a Good Food
region for everyone- where food is healthy, affordable fair,
and sustainable.
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7. OUR STRUCTURE

8. LAFPC WORKING GROUPS
Los Angeles Regional
Good Food System
• 140 diverse stakeholders
• 90 organizations
• 7 (soon to be 8) working groups

9. FOOD POLICY
PRIORITIES &
ACTION PLANS

10. Action Area 1: A Good Food Economy
• Regional Food Hub
• Los Angeles Regional Foodshed
Assessment
• Food system code/regulatory review

11. Action Area 2: Street Food
• Street vendor focus groups
– Issues, needs, and opportunities
• Support pilot projects across county
– South LA (Department of Public Health)
– Boyle Heights
– MacArthur Park
• Host street vending festival

12. Action Area 3: Build a Market for Good Food
• Good Food purchasing policies
– City and county government
– Schools
– Green Business Certification for Restaurants
• Improve the school food environment
– 2011-2012 LAUSD menu changes
– Breakfast in the Classroom

13. Action Area 4: Improve Food Security and Nutrition
• Expanded CalFresh enrollment
– Resource coordination across programs and services
– Outreach and awareness
• Farmers’ Markets
– EBT Machines
– Veggie Vouchers
– Land Use Protections
• Monitor City’s Surplus Food Ordinance

14. Action Area 5: Good Food Retail in Underserved
Neighborhoods
• Support FreshWorks Fund/CHFFI
• Support Community Market Conversion
Program
– Develop nuts and bolts toolkit for Good Food
mom and pops.
• Host public forum on co-op development
• Zoning for health

15. Action Area 6: Grow Good Food
• Survey Urban Farms/Community Gardens
– Technical assistance needs
– Urban Ag enterprise profiles
– Yield and water use data
• Evaluate & Update Land Access Regulations
• Update Community Garden Guidebook

16. Action Area 7: Education & Outreach
• Good Food resource hub website
• Mayor’s Good Food Day of Service
• Food System speakers series (radio, online, in
person)
• “LA Food Kullections” mobile app

17. Recommendations Completed or Underway
• Funding for FPC coordinator
• LAFPC established
• Land analysis for community gardens
• Funding for Regional Food Hub Feasibility Study
• School food pilot program proposal for Mayor’s Partnership Schools
• City/County/LAUSD/Regional Food Bank/CFPA/LAFPC- Food Stamp
outreach and enrollment program proposal
• UCLA Food System Workers Study
• Farmers’ market managers meetings (EBT, incentives, zero waste, land
use)
• Good food procurement summit (County, City of LA, school districts)
• Green Business Certification for Restaurants
• LAUSD RFP- Local sourcing/social responsibility incorporated
• Public engagement website

18. Visit us: goodfoodla.org
Alexa Delwiche
Food Policy Coordinator
alexa.delwiche@gmail.com
323.341.7716