The Florida Food Policy Council (FLFPC) works to address gaps and affect policy within the food system through a JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) lens and collaboration for the benefit of all Floridians and the environment. We hope you'll join us in our role of fostering research, knowledge sharing, and community development and engagement, thus arming community members with the po
wer to be advocates in all aspects of their lives. Values: We believe in cultivating a supportive, inspiring, collaborative, inclusive, and accessible culture. We thrive on three cultivators of change and innovation—knowledge sharing, idea germination, and an inability to not question injustice. Focus: Our goal is to uncover the structural foundations of racism in the Florida food system and highlight how individuals, communities, organizations, and social movements are dismantling the attitudes, institutions, and structures that uphold racism. Furthermore, we focuses on intersectionality and the connection between food, racial, social, climate, health, and environmental justice. We have a board of directors, with our Board Chair acting as our Executive Director. History: A small group of community advocates and stakeholders established the FLFPC in 2010. For several years, we operated with an emphasis on promoting the interests of small food producers. By 2016, we reframed our mission to identify and address gaps in the food system for all Floridians. Through the years we have built our capacity to connect, learn, and collaborate. This allowed us to become conveners of the community; bringing a wide variety of stakeholders together to discuss issues and find solutions.
