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Programs that bring farmers and consumers together such as farmers markets, helps create food security. Home gardens and roadside stands, school and community garden all add to the food supply of Hawaii. Kupuna Farms works to reestablish home and community gardening to bring families and towns together in sharing food. |
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From research by the County of Hawai‘i Agriculture Development Plan and the Kohala Center:
Local food systems provide farmers with a greater degree of control over the price of their products, selection and variety of food they find in stores. By contrast, industrial food systems compromise the market power of farmers and consumers with middlemen distributors with a great amount of control over food variety and price. Industrial food systems inflate the retail price of food products while squeezing the profits of farmers.
Any program that brings farmers closer to consumers, such as farmers markets, CSA’s, and promotions like Buy Local, It Matters, move the State of Hawai‘i closer to a secure food system.
Backyard farming, home gardens, school and community gardens. These settings can not only add to the food supply in substantial ways (‘ulu, mango, avocado, and banana trees, uala as ground cover, row crops grown by students, etc.) but also provide important sites for family and community-based agricultural education. A concerted effort to reestablish home gardening and informal community exchange is one element in assuring local food security and should be encouraged by State and County actions and regulations.
The majority of Hawai‘i farms are small family operations scattered among a limited number of medium to large-scale commercial operations. Closer connections and greater local market control can be formed between farmers and consumers through an expansion of subscription based Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, and farmers’ markets.
Local food systems provide farmers with a greater degree of control over the price of their products, selection and variety of food they find in stores. By contrast, industrial food systems compromise the market power of farmers and consumers with middlemen distributors with a great amount of control over food variety and price. Industrial food systems inflate the retail price of food products while squeezing the profits of farmers.
Any program that brings farmers closer to consumers, such as farmers markets, CSA’s, and promotions like Buy Local, It Matters, move the State of Hawai‘i closer to a secure food system.
Backyard farming, home gardens, school and community gardens. These settings can not only add to the food supply in substantial ways (‘ulu, mango, avocado, and banana trees, uala as ground cover, row crops grown by students, etc.) but also provide important sites for family and community-based agricultural education. A concerted effort to reestablish home gardening and informal community exchange is one element in assuring local food security and should be encouraged by State and County actions and regulations.
The majority of Hawai‘i farms are small family operations scattered among a limited number of medium to large-scale commercial operations. Closer connections and greater local market control can be formed between farmers and consumers through an expansion of subscription based Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, and farmers’ markets.
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