Mission

The Community Food and Justice Coalition promotes the basic human right to healthy food. By partnering with individuals and organizations at the local, state, and national level, CFJC works on grassroots initiatives to develop and support a food system that is equitable, healthy, environmentally sustainable, and community-driven.

Methodology

Through leadership development, community engagement, and capacity building, CFJC collaborates with communities on issues of food access, public policy, climate change, and  immigration. With a lens of equity and social justice we support communities to affect systemic change starting at the local level.

Values

We believe:

• That access to healthy food is a basic human right and must not be compromised

• That communities are enriched by the cultivation and celebration of diverse food traditions and experience

• That the production, distribution, and preparation of food must be healthy and humane for all humans, animals and ecosystems

• That agricultural land and biological diversity must be protected for future generations

• That all food commerce must be just, democratic and economically fair

History

CFJC was founded by the Community Food Security Coalition in 2003 as a way to coordinate the efforts of the burgeoning food justice movement in California, and address food policy needs. CFJC was a program of the Community Food Security Coalition until 2008 when CFJC became an independent project, and is now fiscally sponsored by the Public Health Institute.  In October 2012, we changed our name from the California Food and Justice Coalition to the Community Food and Justice Coalition to better reflect the work we do on behalf of our partners in communities across the country.