BFAC Values Statement

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• The Boston Food Access Council (BFAC) brings together residents, activists, thought leaders, organizations, farmers, researchers, and other diverse stakeholders to address equitable food access in the city of Boston, recognizing its role in the larger Massachusetts food system.
• The BFAC asserts that consistent access to healthy, nutritious, affordable, and culturally appropriate food is a basic human right.
• The BFAC seeks to create an anti-racist, inclusive, and participatory culture of learning by building trusting and transformational relationships within the community by engaging residents with lived experiences in hunger.
• The BFAC aims to ground itself in a power-sharing model that honors and values all voices at the table, treating each with dignity and respect, and is trauma-informed and self-critical.
• The BFAC seeks to offer a space to help provide an equitable, community-centered platform for food access, affordability, and economic opportunity.

 The Boston Food Access Council was relaunched in 2020 by the City’s Office of Food Justice and a transition committee which designed the structure of the Council. The BFAC was relaunched as part of the Mayor’s Food Access Agenda which was released in 2019 following strategic planning work with the City’s team and stakeholders. 

BFAC is a volunteer-led independent organization that works to engage groups across Boston around food access issues. Though we work closely with OFJ, we remain independent to maintain the community-led nature of the group. 

We are aligned with the Office in many ways, but it’s important to note that we are not City-affiliated. Our network provides a community-led forum for engagement around food access issues.