Letter to President Biden Advocating for Equity Related Topics in September's White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health
May 4, 2022
As part of our continued efforts to shape September’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, we worked with the Alliance to End Hunger and other businesses to provide input to President Biden on key agenda topics. The Alliance’s letter to President Biden featured our top priority racial equity questions for the conference to address, including:
- Overall Conference Questions:
- How can we improve health outcomes through a robust food strategy and
reduce cost to society (e.g., healthcare, lost productivity)? - How can we make nutritious foods accessible and affordable for all Americans
at all times? - How do we drive inefficiencies / waste out of the system (e.g., food waste,
process waste)? - How do we leverage lessons learned from COVID response to improve the food system, food insecurity, programs, processes and technology?
- How will we measure success and progress, while improving transparency,
accountability and sustainability?
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- How can we improve health outcomes through a robust food strategy and
- Racial Equity Questions:
- How can we close the racial food insecurity gap?
- How can we close the racial healthy food access gap (e.g., grocery access)?
- How can we close the racial obesity gap in children?
- How can we close the racial life expectancy gap through food programs?
- How do we drive transparency to verify programs and processes are equitable?
- How can we reduce disproportionate climate impact of the food system on the Black community?
