The theme, Food Sustainability in Low Resource Communities

focuses on strengthening community assets, talents partnerships and networks that help communities disproportionately impacted by food insecurity develop novel and sustainable models that help solve food insecurity and increase healthy eating. Regular access to healthy foods and adequate amounts of healthy food can reduce the risk for chronic diseases like cancer and cardiovascular diseases in Black and rural communities. Unfortunately, Black and rural communities suffer disproportionate deaths from cancer and cardiovascular diseases and food insecurity.

Our MISSION is to strengthen community assets, partnerships and networks that support communities in the use of evidence-based and novel models to implement sustainable healthy food programs; use of evidence-based business models; use of alternative energy sources; and broad-based.

Our VISION is to create equitable opportunities for low resource communities to develop sustainable food systems that promote healthy eating and that then eliminates food insecurity, and ultimately the disproportionate burden of chronic diseases. We will hold a booth focused on smoking cessation, vaping education, and lung cancer screening education.