Help Establish the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition’s Priorities

• The Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition is setting its priorities and you can help determine what they will be. These immediate priorities will help to establish a framework for the coalition’s longer term agenda. Moving forward, they’ll be engaging with partners in a conversation about longer term priorities.

• The survey should take about 10-15 minutes.

• Please note that only one survey response is permitted per organization and that coalition members’ responses will be weighted more heavily than non-members. You will be given an opportunity to join the coalition at the end of the survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HFHP_Survey_1

Join the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition:

You can join the Coalition as an organization or an individual. Joining the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition means that you or your organization is committed to fostering dialogue to improve understanding and identify joint priorities that serve both public health and agriculture. It does NOT mean that you or your organization will automatically be signed on to all actions taken by the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition. It also does NOT mean you will necessarily share the Coalition’s top policy priorities. Members will be provided opportunities to sign on to each activity, letter, etc.

Join the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition online at: http://hfhpcoalition.org/join/

About the Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition:

The Healthy Farms, Healthy People Coalition works for policy reform that promotes the health of all Americans while strengthening the economic and environmental viability of the food and agricultural sectors. HFHP focuses on policies that help ensure all Americans have access to a safe, affordable, and healthy diet. Healthy farms and healthy people are essential ingredients for a healthy economy.

Overarching goals:

To identify and articulate the common interests of the agriculture, health, equity, and environmental communities in food and farm policy debates.
To advocate for policies at all levels of government (local, state and federal) that support better nutrition for citizens, a healthier economy for rural communities, and a more resilient and secure farm sector, with justice throughout the food system.
To build a broader-based, more diverse movement, spanning rural and urban interests, to achieve the Coalition’s vision.
Contact Project Coordinator, Holly Calhoun, with any questions at hcalhoun@phi.org or (510) 547-1547.

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