December 2024

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Hawaiʻi Food System Summit 2024

Theme: zERO Hunger | December 9 – 10 | UH West Oʻahu

Summit Day 1

Dec 9 @ UHWO
from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Zero Hunger: 9:00 to 12:00 pm
Equity: 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Summit Day 2

Dec 10 @ UHWO
from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Resilience: 9:00 to 12:00 pm
Opportunities: 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Why the Summit?

The Hawaiʻi Food System Summit convenes stakeholders from across the islands to learn and share recent research findings, planning initiatives and priorities for food and agricultural policy in advance of the 2025 legislative session.

For more on the process, people and key outcomes of the 2023 Food System Summit, please visit our Food System Summit Recap page. 

Our Vision and Path Forward for the Food System Summit

Objectives

  • Legislative Advocacy: Work together with legislative leadership to take urgent and concrete steps to end hunger in Hawai‘i.
  • Accountability: Foster a sense of responsibility within the network and committee to ensure that commitments are met and progress is tracked.
  • Collaborative Action: Work collectively to define clear outcomes and actionable steps, ensuring that participants are accountable to these goals.
  • Thematic Integration: Align the summit’s objectives with the Z.E.R.O Hunger themes, emphasizing the interconnectedness of food system issues and promoting holistic solutions.
  • Cross-Sector Collaboration: Break down silos in food system work, encouraging ongoing collaboration and understanding of how different sectors contribute to the goal of ZERO hunger.

Outcomes

  • Understand and describe the dire state of household food security in Hawaii, the root causes, how they are connected and systemic solutions.
  • Better understand the crosscutting range of agri-food policy priorities, including those addressing household food security and key food system stakeholders across Hawaii.
  • Understand and connect with centralized information sources (HAPA, Food +) throughout the 2025 legislative cycle and identify a potential centralized food policy council.
  • 4. Identify opportunities for involvement around key food policy initiatives focused on zero hunger/food security.
  • Feel more empowered and capable to actively participating in the legislative process.
  • Better understand and respond to the key power dynamics at the State Legislature and obstacles to food policy.
  • Create working relationships with key State legislators and/or their staff in support of holding them accountable and capable in taking action.
  • Provide collaborative input for the county-level Food Security Plan(s).
  • Collaborate with the broader social network engaged in food system change work.

The Food System Summit is organized each year to bring our collective focus and problem-solving skills toward understanding and addressing the many food and agriculture issues facing Hawaiʻi, including household food insecurity, building food system resilience, supporting sustainable agriculture practices and the economic viability of local producers, improving the conditions of agri-food labor, and enhancing disaster preparedness, among others.

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Optional Activities Available for December 11 (Post Summit)

Explore ongoing food systems efforts through three community site visits at MA‘O Organic Farms, Hawaiʻi Food Bank, and Wāhiawa Value-Added Development Center. After selecting a single site visit on the summit registration form, the host site will reach out to you with more by December 5th.


If you’re interested in visiting all the sites but can’t attend them on December 11th, click the site info below to discover additional opportunities to engage with these organizations.

Community Site Visits

Wahiawā Value Added Product Development Center

9:00 am to 11:00 am
1001 California Ave, Wahiawā, HI 96786

Hawaiʻi Food Bank

8:30 am to 11:30 am
2611 Kilihau St, Honolulu, HI 96819

MAʻO Organic Farms

9:00 am to 12:00 pm
86-148 Puhawai Rd, Waiʻanae, HI 96792

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MAHALO to our 2024 Hawaiʻi Food System Summit Sponsors & Collaborators:

  • COLLABORATORS: Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency & Hawaiʻi Hunger Action Network
  • ʻUALA Level: Ke Ō Mau Center
  • KUKUI Level: HHF Planners, Johnson ʻOhana Foundation & Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation