Procuring Food Justice: Grassroots Solutions for Reclaiming our Supply Chains

FCWA & HEAL Food Alliance

Published in 2023

A new report released from the Food Chain Workers Alliance and HEAL Food Alliance analyzes how grassroots leaders have won policies in 10 U.S. cities that hold institutions accountable to purchasing food from suppliers who support people working on the frontlines, local communities, animals, and the environment – collectively influencing over $540 million in public food dollars. Procuring Food Justice: Grassroots Solutions for Reclaiming Public Supply Chains distills lessons from a decade of organizing to offer advocates a new blueprint for leveraging a “values-based purchasing” strategy to challenge corporate control of public food and redirect billions of taxpayer dollars toward small producers, producers of color, and suppliers with fair labor practices.