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Objective 1.G
Create, introduce & advocate model food system policies that support implementation of the New Mainstream Campaign.

California’s model food policy will include initiatives that:
•    Develop and operate local, regional and export marketing tools and promotion systems for California’s food products
•    Provide grants to universities, commodity boards, commissions and food system nonprofits to assist producers in transitioning to sustainable production and employment practices
•    Train and educate emerging and current food system workers, through higher education, to enhance career development
•    End the farmworker crisis by offering housing grants, health insurance, health screenings, immigration and employment counseling
•    Provide grants to purchase conservation easements for lands to become sources of sustainably produced food
•    Provide more money for healthier school meals and provide nutrition, gardening and cooking education in all public schools
•    Develop more distribution and retail systems, and enhanced cooking and nutrition education for low-income communities
•    Provide enhanced funding for exotic and invasive pest exclusion, inspection and enforcement
•    Provide grants to communities engaged in developing local food security through education, entrepreneurship, and consensus building.

Proposed Places to Start in 2008:
1.    Convene a workgroup and develop the language for model policy that specifies, in detail, the elements listed above.
2.    Develop a list of committed non profits, businesses, and individuals that support the language
3.    Testify before the legislature to inject language into the policy process
4.    Raise funds to educate policymaker and the public
 
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