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Achieving Local Food
SecurityRyan Thayer
Nutrition and Wellness Program Manger
Marin County Public Health | Community Health and Prevention
Marin County HEAL Collaborative
Food Insecurity in Marin County
Food Insecurity is a result of our inequitable
system
Marin most inequitable county in CA
There is not a single story of food insecurity
Working families
Isolated elders
Undocumented communities
The hands that feed us
Poverty in Marin
Covid- 19 Impacts
SFMFB provides pounds of food to distribution agencies. 1 Meal = 1.2 pounds
Sites range from serving 20 to over 500 families; average household size in Marin is 2.36
Increasing Food Bank Activity Into and Through COVIDSources: SF Marin Food Bank
Community Driven Solutions
The Emergency food system is not the
solution, unless we accept a state of
emergency as normal
Highly dependent on donations from the
global corporate food system
Extremely vulnerable
Need to address equity at its core
Community empowerment models
More attention to wealth generation
and food economies
Self determination as a frame
Global Food System
Justice in the Food System
Food as a lens to address
systemic inequities and racial
injustice
Environmental justice
Economy
Community self determination
Food for Thought Hunger is not about the point of
consumption
Must include systemic inequity, poverty,
and relationship with the land in analysis
Terms to avoid
Food desert
Food swamp
Produced by systemic racism
“So when we talk about food apartheid,
the reason why we bring it up is because
food desert doesn’t cut it. Food desert
doesn’t open up the conversation that we
need to have when it comes to race,
when it comes to income inequality, when
it comes to so much.”
Karen Washington, community activist, co-
founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS), and
co-owner of Rise & Root Farm
Local Efforts
Ohlone
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust - The Shuumi
Land Tax
The Marin Museum of the American
Indian Marin
Mutual Aide
Bolinas Community Kitchen
Community Fridges programs
Richmond
Urban Tilth- World Food Sovereignty
Prize
United States
Soul Fire Farms – Farming While Black
What can you do?
Photo sources Slide 1
https://marinheal.org/about-heal/
https://www.marincounty.org/main/newsroom
Slide 2
https://www.newsbreak.com/california/petaluma/news/1607465462968/marin-cheese-maker-finds-a-way-to-survive-big-drop-in-sales-by-giving-away-its-award-winning-cheese
https://www.marinij.com/2019/09/11/at-50-year-mark-san-geronimo-valley-community-center-sets-sights-on-future/
Slide 3
https://data.clarionledger.com/american-community-survey/marin-county-california/poverty-status/total-population/num/05000US06041/
Slide 4, 5, 6
Marin County HEAL Collaborative data report
Slide 7
https://abinashbiswal.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/no-more-teach-a-man-to-fish-he-will-eat-for-life/
Slide 8
https://sustainablenutritioninitiative.com/
Slide 9
https://oktjustice.org/2016/12/06/what-is-food-justice/
Slide 10
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/15/food-apartheid-food-deserts-racism-inequality-america-karen-washington-interview
Slide 11
https://sogoreate-landtrust.com/shuumi-land-tax/
Slide 12
https://www.tishmancenter.org/news-and-events-old/decolonize-reindigenize-planetary-crisis-biocultural-diversity-indigenous-resurgence-amp-land-rematriation
