According to the 2022 Hunger Report by the Capital Area Food Bank, 1.2 million people in the Washington DC area are food insecure - that means for every three residents, 1 person is food insecure.
The USDA defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. The risk for food insecurity and the lack of access to affordable nutritious food is heavily correlated with income, employment and disability. Consequently, this can disproportionately affect specific populations and contribute to increased risk for chronic health conditions and other diseases.
Join the Women Impact Investing Network (WIIN) for our first in-person event since COVID in 2019, Farmer to Table: Building Resilient Food Systems on September 6, 2023 at 5:30pm EST at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Washington DC. Our expert panelists will discuss the challenges of building a resilient food system in the Washington DC Metropolitan area and propose actions to promote a sustainable value chain from access to land, labor and capital to policy to distribution and nutrition in the DMV. Panelists will highlight the challenge of food deserts in the district, and organizations providing fair and healthy solutions including DC Jail Food Reform, Universal Free School Meals, and Food as Medicine for Medicaid recipients.
The panel will be co-hosted by WIIN Board Members Anna Mabrey and Camille Jones, and facilitated by WIIN Board Advisor and Executive Director Lucy Jodlowska of Winrock International. The event will feature Tope Fajingbesi, Managing Director, Dodo Farms in Montgomery County sharing her fair farming philosophy of Land, Labor + Capital (“LLC”), Winnie Huston, D.C. Green’s Food Policy Strategist, advocating their mission: Advancing health equity by building a just and resilient food system, and Amy Bachman, Director of Procurement and Sustainability at DC Central Kitchen, sharing their focus on combating hunger and poverty through job training, job creation, and healthy food distribution.
We are thrilled and humbled to invite you to join this one-hour moderated conversation with us followed by a networking reception. Event doors open at 5:30pm, speakers start promptly at 6pm, followed by a networking reception with light refreshments served from 7-7:30pm.