CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION adopting the 2024 Food Action Plan and directing the Office of Sustainability and Environment to continue interdepartmental coordination, implementation, and monitoring of the Food Action Plan.
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WHEREAS, local and regional food systems are essential to healthy, resilient, and equitable communities; and
WHEREAS, The City of Seattle ("City") has an opportunity and responsibility to work collaboratively with a variety of local communities and food system practitioners to increase equitable access to nutritious, affordable, and culturally relevant food; support locally grown and harvested foods; increase equitable economic opportunity and labor protections for workers; prevent food waste; and reduce the environmental and climate impacts of the local food system; and
WHEREAS, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in the food system create unfair differences in access to fresh, nutritious, affordable, and culturally relevant foods, increase the disproportionate prevalence of diet-related diseases, create barriers to land access, ownership and starting food or farm businesses, and contribute to racial disparities in job quality; and
WHEREAS, the COVID pandemic directly impacted local, national, and global food systems and worsened economic, racial, and social disparities in food insecurity rates and other food system outcomes; and
WHEREAS, food systems are both impacted by and major contributors to climate change; and
WHEREAS, these concurrent crises of persistent racial inequities, the pandemic, and climate change can spur unique opportunities for change to create a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient local food system; and
WHEREAS, Tribes, Native and Indigenous communities, and communities most impacted by food systems issues have extensive expertise in fostering equitable, sustainable, and resilient local food systems; and
WHEREAS, in 2007, the Council adopted, with the Mayor conc...
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