HAWAIʻI GOOD FOOD ALLIANCE
The Hawaiʻi Good Food Alliance is a diverse hui of individuals and organizations who share in the production, aggregation, and distribution of food, and share in the practice of mālama ʻāina to re-build thriving community food systems.
WHAT WE DO
GROW
Support and expand production of good food and the farmers that produce it.
Ensure equitable and efficient distribution of good food to meet community needs and economies.
SHARE
Provide education and access that encourages all residents, regardless of income, to consume good food.
EAT
GUIDING PILLARS
CULTURAL GROUNDING
Food is a direct connection to our spirituality, culture, community, heritage, and to each other.
FOOD IS MEDICINE
Good food provides a strong foundation for the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
EQUITY
Everyone deserves easy and reliable access to nutritious food as a matter of fairness, equity, and social justice.
COMMUNITY- BASED
Sharing aloha and knowledge, along with building capacity, supports community abundance.
MĀLAMA ʻĀINA
Our relationship with land is one of reciprocity, not ownership - we care for ʻāina and so it provides.
KĀKOU
We join together—with a sense of urgency—to raise community voice and support one another in the belief that each and every person in Hawai’i can share in healthy, locally produced food.
@hawaiigoodfoodalliance
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Food and food systems are extremely complex. They impact how we live, our health, and our wellbeing. Our current systems and the single program and strategy approaches from the top are not working. To make food systems that truly encourage healthy communities and healthy people, they need to reflect what communities need and want. Our approach is to focus on building relationships and partnerships. Leaders share, collaborate, and work together to create local food networks that are effective for their communities. We knit these local community networks into a larger statewide network as a “network of networks” and Alliance to raise community voice to effect changes that matter at the greater systems level with the aim of giving everyone in Hawaiʻi an opportunity to have a healthy and fulfilling life.
Tina Tamai
HGFA Board Member and Founder
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Our goal is in the long term is that our ʻāina is healthy, our food system is healthy, and our people are healthy. Our food connects us to our grandparents, our spirit, our culture, our stories, our environment. So if we’re interested in our children growing up in a healthy food system, we have to invest in it.
Kaʻiulani Odom
HGFA Executive Director
MAHALO
TO OUR SPONSORS WHO MAKE THIS WORK POSSIBLE.
