Food Access Investing in Resilience (FAIR)
The Food Access Investing in Resilience (FAIR) Program, funded through JCOD’s Care First Community Investment (CFCI) initiative and operated via the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, is a local initiative that expands fresh food access, nutrition support, and community resilience for low-income and justice-impacted households following the end of federal SNAP-Ed funding.
Learn more about what APIFM’s FAIR team is doing to provide fresh food and increase nutrition security for API families:
Emergency CSA
The Food Roots program was initially created in the summer of 2012 in order to address the lack of access to local, affordable, and culturally relevant produce for many Asian and Pacific Islander (API) families across LA County. The program has taken many forms over the years evolving from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model to a regional food hub model which aggregates produce from local farmers and distributes it to community organizations and institutions throughout LA County. In order to address the emergency food needs exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, APIFM is working with our network of local farmers to get fresh produce to seniors, low-income families, and immune compromised community members across LA County via our Emergency Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
To learn more about the cause, partners, and produce that Food Roots works to provide please visit:
Community Food Hub
SSG/APIFM’s Food Roots Community Food Hub program which included business planning, food safety training and technical assistance, leadership development, and farmer capacity building, develops relationships with small farms cultivated by Asian and Latinx farmers to bring culturally relevant produce to low-income neighborhoods, health clinics, schools, corner stores, churches, and parks.
