Get To Know NJ’s Food System

2025: NJ Food System Roadmap Status Update

The NJ Roadmap for Food System Resilience: A Holistic Justice Framework for Food System Transformation is a community-driven food system plan shaped through grassroots organizing and collective action across NJ.

The 2025 status update tracks progress made toward implementing the roadmap’s action recommendations. To learn more about the methodology and process behind this update, please view this presentation.

If you have information to share about the status of a roadmap action, please use this form to help keep the NJ Food System Roadmap accurate, current, and responsive as a living document.

    1. Adopt a holistic food system perspective

    2. Streamline food system governance & develop a state food charter

    3. Improve knowledge and assessment & increase transparency

    4. Operationalize effective processes for inter-agency & multisector coordination

    5. Foster local & regional food policy councils across NJ

    6. Leverage federal nutrition programs to support access to food across NJ

    7. Bolster local food economy infrastructure

    8. Implement climate mitigation & adaptation recommendations in the food system

    9. Adequately support, integrate & expand existing programs

    10. Expand fresh produce purchasing incentive programs for full state coverage

    11. Strengthen livelihoods across the food system

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Additional Resources

  • The New Jersey Food System in a Nutshell

    This 2022 NJFDC report provides a holistic view of the New Jersey food system and its economic, environmental, and social impacts.

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  • NJ Roadmap for Food System Resilience

    Here we frame NJ’s food and agriculture challenges holistically, building resilience through a social & racial justice lens grounded in the state’s environmental justice priorities.

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  • What is a Food System?

    Gain a deeper understanding of the concept of a food system and become familiar with the components that constitute a robust, regenerative, equitable, and anti-racist food system.

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  • Why a Food Systems Perspective?

    Learn about the advantages of a food systems perspective and how it can help address challenges, foster healthy collaborations, and advance equitable policies and processes.

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  • What is Food Democracy?

    Explore the concept of food democracy, in which members of a community work together to shape their local food system through shared decision-making and collective action.

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