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True food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and cultural preferences for an active and healthy life.

In this fireside chat about upstream, forward-thinking food security efforts in New Jersey, administrators from Hudson and Somerset counties discuss how they intentionally center the voices and expertise of communities and trusted community-based partner organizations to guide county-level food security efforts such as the coordination of mobile resource fairs. We’ll also hear real world applications for upholding residents’ dignity, adding value and lifting potential barriers to make it easier for communities to participate in surveys, community health needs assessments and other processes as they’d like, and then using the data to form work groups and build more widespread support for advancing equity through a food security lens.