“This Report builds on the incredible work in the 1969 White House Conference that led to transformational changes in our feeding programs. Statement from Task Force Co-chair Secretary Dan Glickman, Distinguished Fellow of the Center on Global Food and Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center Former United States Secretary of Agriculture I have no doubt that collectively we can design a future where no American goes hungry or needlessly suffers from diet-related disease.” I look forward to working with government, private sector and everyone engaged at the grassroots level to help deliver and scale the solutions we've shared. Making healthy food more available, affordable, and in demand will require commitments from players across the food system - from farmers to manufacturers and to each of us as eaters. And of course we also must address the underlying issue of poverty. At the same time, this report is just the beginning. Many diverse perspectives were part of the process - most importantly, people with lived experiences of hunger and diet-related disease.
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“The policy ideas and recommendations outlined in this report are a critical first step to achieving a healthier and hunger free America. Statement from Task Force Co-chair Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Food Systems for the Future Former Executive Director, World Food Programme This is only the beginning, there is still a lot of work to be done." By listening to the people, policy experts and advocates, this Report provides a roadmap to enacting bold changes to increase access to healthy, nutritious food for all Americans, while ensuring those changes protect the dignity of all people. "This Report is one of many necessary efforts to build longer tables and combat hunger in America and the world. S tatement from Task Force Co-chair José Andrés, Founder and Chief Feeding Officer, World Central Kitchen Founder, ThinkFoodGroup The Task Force believes that these efforts - while not formally requested nor endorsed by the White House - can help elevate the best ideas across the United States to catalyze historic, transformational solutions to some of the greatest challenges around food facing the nation. The Task Force members are banded together in their unwavering belief in the paramount importance of taking decisive action to achieve transformative change to end food insecurity and hunger, improve nutrition, and reduce diet-related diseases. The Report also includes 12 recommended actions and commitments for the private sector to support these goals.Īdvancing the bold, high-impact agenda outlined in the Report calls for political will and bipartisan solutions from the White House, Congress, specific federal agencies, state and local governments, non-government organizations, and the private sector. It contains 30 high-priority policy recommendations, undergirded by more than 200 specific actions for the federal agencies, Congress, and other stakeholders, to end hunger, advance nutrition, and reduce diet-related conditions in the United States.
The Report has been shared with the White House and is now being publicly released. In addition to the Task Force itself - comprising leaders from academia, civil society, government, and the private sector - the report was informed by a review of more than 75 existing policy reports a Strategy Group of approximately two dozen national organizations that provided a broader reflection of views and issues across America discussions at three in-person national policy convenings held in different parts of the country that brought together more than 240 multi-sector leaders and stakeholders and more than 15 listening sessions planned with communities around the nation to center the knowledge and perspectives of individuals with diverse lived experiences around hunger, poor nutrition, and diet-related diseases. food and nutrition policy since the original White House Conference report in 1969.
The Task Force Report represents the most far-reaching, consensus-based recommendations from diverse perspectives on U.S.
Elephant print out for baby shower.Today, the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health (Task Force) - an independent group of national leaders and experts convened by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Food Systems for the Future, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and World Central Kitchen - publicly released its comprehensive Report to inform the upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health - the first conference of its kind held since 1969.
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