We hosted our 2023 Food Policy Forum on April 12th, 3:30-5:30 via Zoom. Access the recording here.  Password: W^b5B#?e

Speakers:

• Dana Eidsness, Senior Anti-Hunger Policy Advisor in the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
• Brian Colleran, Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker's Office
• Anna Korsen, Advocacy and Implementation Director, Full Plates Full Potential

Agenda:

• Targeted Universalism for Equitable Policy Development
• Implementing Maine’s Right to Food
• How Maine is Ending Hunger by 2030
• Evolving the Local Foods Fund
• Other Pending Legislation of Note

Resources:
Targeted Universalism - video
​Article: The brewing war over who goes hungry in America — and how to feed them
​Article: America Is in a Disgraced Class of Its Own

Right to Food:
People's Implementation Manual on the Right to Food in Maine Survey
Right to Food Information
Implementing the RTF in America
Maine becomes the first US state to recognize the Right to Food in a Constitutional amendment 

Local Food Fund:
​Full Plates Full Potential - Local Food Fund
Full Plates Full Potential - The Critical Importance of Implementation

Community Eligibility Provision - Comment Submission

Bill links:
LD 1274: An Act to Increase Land Access for Historically Disadvantaged Populations
​LD 568: An Act to Provide Funding for the Fund to Address Food Insecurity and Provide Nutrition Incentives
LD 636 (enacted in 130th Legislature): An Act to Encourage the Purchase of Local Foods for Public Schools
LR 702: An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the DACF’s Working Group on Custom Slaughterhouses
Maine Equal Justice Priorities: LR 1320: An Act to Reduce the Number of Child Living in Deep Poverty, LD 945: An Act to Allow Maine Families to Increase Their Savings (Asset Limit Bill)
LD 199: An Act to Improve the Health of Maine Residents by Removing Exclusions to the MaineCare Program, PPS article on LD 199
LD 1612:  An Act to Address Food Insecurity and Support Local Agriculture

• CCFSC's Testimony in Support of LD 1612

To learn more about the Food Policy Forums we have hosted, please visit the pages below: 
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Hungry for Change in the Time of COVID-19 (2021)

Hungry for Change: Food Policy Forum (2019)

Food Policy Forum (2017)

Food Systems Summit (2016)

To stay up to date on food policy work in Maine, subscribe to Maine Food Policy Work Group's Newsletter or visit their website.