The Charter

MNA roadmap to healthy, affordable, and safe food for all Minnesotans The Minnesota Food Charter is a tool to create healthy, prosperous communities. It offers ways to ensure that nourishing food is accessible today and for future generations.

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From farm to fork, the Food Charter offers concrete ways to build prosperous communities through changes to policies and systems at all scales.

  1. Each section defines a key part of access to healthy food.
  2. Challenges that affect these parts are listed on each section’s left page.
  3. Strategies that people can implement together are on each section’s right page.

We identified challenges and strategies through a variety of sources, including extensive public input, expert advice, research review, and related evidence about the extent of these challenges and the effectiveness of proposed strategies. While not necessarily an exhaustive list, these strategies offer the most promising and most acceptable avenues for change, according to the thousands of Minnesotans who provided feedback to the Food Charter.

The Minnesota Food Charter will ensure we have healthy, affordable and safe food, building a legacy of health for future generations.

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The Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation. This material was funded in part by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP – with funds received from and through the Minnesota Department of Human Services. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The Minnesota Food Charter Network is hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute.