22/08/2026
GLOBAL WORK. LOCAL ROOTS. ONE MISSION: FOOD SECURITY.
This week, the Center for Sustainable Agricultural Excellence & Conservation stood alongside our agricultural partners in Duval County in a unified commitment to strengthening agriculture and our regional food system.
At the same time, our work continued across communities in the Philippines, South Sudan, Colorado, and Mississippi.
The geography changes. The challenge does not.
Communities everywhere need resilient, accessible and sustainable systems for producing food—systems that conserve water, strengthen local economies, develop farmers and producers, and reduce dependence on long and increasingly vulnerable supply chains.
That work begins locally.
We encourage every household and community to take practical steps toward greater food resilience:
Build your yarden. Grow something.
And when you purchase food, look locally first.
Support the farmer who grows it, the rancher who raises it, the producer who makes it, and the waterman who harvests it.
Local food dollars do more than purchase a meal. They help preserve agricultural knowledge, working lands, fisheries, rural and coastal livelihoods, small businesses, and the capacity of a community to feed itself.
Our mission reaches around the world, but the principle remains remarkably simple:
Healthy communities require healthy food systems.
Healthy food systems require producers.
And producers require communities willing to support them.
Whether in Northeast Florida, the Mississippi Delta, Colorado, South Sudan, the Philippines, or beyond, we will continue working toward agricultural systems that conserve natural resources while putting the knowledge and capacity to produce food back into the hands of communities.
Grow local. Buy local. Know your producer. Protect the resources that feed us.
