The pandemic and supply chain disruptions have revealed longstanding issues with getting food from farm to table. In an effort to strengthen the food system across the supply chain, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced details of its Food System Transformation Framework.
More options, increased access, and improved markets are just some of the USDA's goals for transforming our food system. The framework addresses the need for more capacity to gather, process, move, and store food. Increasing local/geographic capacity will help build resiliency in the face of market disruptions, provide more choices for producers to create value-added products and sell locally, and support new economic opportunities and job creation in rural communities.
In addressing supply chain challenges, the USDA announced plans to invest in:
The USDA framework also invests in a food system that creates more and better market options to ensure access to fresh, nutritious food by:
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