National Association of Counties
On June 30, the National Association of Counties (NACo) hosted a virtual listening session to inform the White House national strategy to end hunger, increase healthy eating and physical activity and reduce diet related diseases in the United States by 2030. This national strategy will be announced at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health (Conference) scheduled for September, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
The listening session focused on two of the main pillars of the Conference:
1. Improving food access and affordability
2. Empowering all consumers to make and have access to healthy choices
Roughly 60 county elected officials and senior county employees from across the nation attended this convening, offering their insight and ideas in response to advance questions provided by the White House. These questions included:
Responses to these questions, along with county policy priorities outlined in the American County Platform (NACo’s permanent policy document), informed NACo’s memo submission to the White House.
NACo thanks our federal partners for the opportunity to provide county recommendations for the national strategy to end hunger, obesity and diet-related disease by the year 2030 and we look forward to continuing to support a whole-government approach to our nation’s epidemic of food and nutrition insecurity.
A recording of the listening session can be found here.
NACo’s submission on county perspectives for the Conference can be found here.
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