South Bay Food Systems Dashboard
Data-driven strategies to enhance food security and justice across the South Bay Area
Purpose:
This multi-language dashboard is a community centered tool designed to strengthen the South Bay regional food system. Through providing targeted resources for entrepreneurs, farmers, and advocates, the website aims to increase community access to nutritious, culturally relevant food. By tracking the County of Santa Clara Food Systems Workplan goals developed post COVID, we highlight our progress toward food sovereignty and identify where more work is needed to build a resilient, sustainable and equitable food system.
Why now:
After the Covid 19 pandemic unveiled long-standing inequities within the food system, the County of Santa Clara (SCC) approved the development of a food system workplan to improve coordination and build a healthier, more resilient, and sustainable, agriculture and food system.
We created this dashboard because a sustainable food system is an important foundation for a community’s health.
Key Food System Participants
Food Entrepreneurs
Local vendors and small food businesses driving the South Bay’s food economy by navigating opportunities and overcoming barriers
Urban Growers & Farmers
Farmers, gardeners, and producers working to expand access to fresh, locally grown food across the South Bay
Advocates & Policy Makers
Individuals and institutions advancing food justice through policy, advocacy, and research in the region
About the South Bay Food Justice Collaborative
The South Bay Food Justice Collaborative (SBFJC) is a community of practice consisting of organizations and individuals working toward food justice in the South Bay region.
Our Mission & Vision
Advocacy
Capacity-Building
Relationships
The SBFJC strives to create a food system that delivers plentiful, nourishing, culturally relevant, responsibly-produced food to all as a human right. We leverage advocacy, capacity building, and relationships among a diverse group of individuals and organizations to collaboratively promote food justice across the South Bay. The SBFJC envisions equitable food systems where all people, regardless of differences, can:
- Participate in & influence their local food system socially, politically, and economically
- Grow, access, and consume nourishing, culturally-appropriate food
- create and/or support thriving food and farming businesses
Our Values
Collaboration
Systems Thinking
Connectivity
Community Accountability
Inclusive Sustainability
Moving at the Speed of Trust
Our Community
Our current members are based primarily in the South Bay, but our relationships extend throughout the regional foodshed, and we encourage engagement with people and organizations beyond our county borders. We welcome collaborations with farmers, urban growers, and community-based organizations across Northern and Central California.
Santa Clara County Resilient Food System Goals
