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Strategy 10A

Improve access to healthy food

Reliable access to safe and healthy food is a basic human need that goes unmet for all too many people in Los Angeles County. Policies and practices that segregated people by race and class throughout the County’s history also had the effect of draining economic activity, including food production and retail, from historically impacted communities.

OurCounty will build off of existing programs to address this injustice by incentivizing an equitable food retail economy, maximizing the reach of food assistance programs, and allowing County land to be used for agricultural production.

Targets
Countywide

Baseline
69% of eligible households were enrolled in CalFresh/SNAP in 2017. (California Department of Social Services CalFresh Program Data)

2025
100% enrollment of eligible households in CalFresh/SNAP

Baseline
63% of farmers' markets accepted Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) in 2017. (Los Angeles Food Policy Council)

2025
100% acceptance of CalFresh and EBT at all farmers' markets

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