Community Food & Water and Farm Bill
Economic design for publicly funded climate-ready communities
The Community Food & Water and Farm Bill addresses the enduring challenges of climate resiliency by empowering communities and farmers with a comprehensive set of economic tools to establish successful, locally-adapted food and water economies designed to depend on healthy ecosystems to sustain life and cool the planet.
Pragmatic Solution to an Economic Problem
Whether we shop at a farmers’ market, belong to a CSA or a food co-op-even if we grow our own food, everyone pays the cost of the publicly funded industrial food chain. Communities are tethered to a food economy that is unsustainable-depending on practices that contaminate and destroy ecosystems, contribute to greenhouse gases and create dependency. We need an economic solution to this economic problem-now.
The purpose of the Community Food & Water and Farm Bill is to take our right to a publicly funded regenerative food economy seriously-placing it firmly in the public agenda as a practical necessity.
The idea of establishing every community as an economic engine for sustainable living is neither naïve nor unrealistic. It is the only pragmatic solution to the challenges of food and water security and climate change.
All communities must be organized to participate in and benefit from economies designed to be resilient in the face of climate change. The Community Food & Water and Farm Bill provides the tools we need to meet the demands of food, water and climate.
The federal Farm Bill determines the direction of the world’s food economy. Combined with funds from the public treasury and trade arrangements, the Farm Bill advances the success of every link in the Industrial Food Chain. We need to be clear this is a created economy-not a ‘free’ market.
It is time to create the food economy we need to live sustainably-connecting communities across rural and urban landscapes to a common purpose-caring for one another and the home we share. The Community Food & Water and Farm Bill provides the tools we need to shape that economy and leave a legacy capable of serving future generations.
Together, we can leverage our need to meet climate readiness goals to demand public investments and policies that empower communities and farmers with the economic tools necessary to transform local communities into engines for sustainable living.