Recover Delaware Roundtable #3: Food Security

PROJECT SYNOPSIS

Governments at all levels—municipal, county, and state—are most prepared to respond effectively during an emergency or unexpected circumstance when they have access to mechanisms that can inform their understanding and expedite decision making. More specifically, governments are better off when they have an updated and ongoing grasp of community needs and what resources are required to address them. Ensuring that communities have secure access, availability, and affordability of food resources is crucial to a government’s emergency management and preparedness. Like other public health crises, natural disasters, or lasting economic downturns the impact of COVID-19 shed light on socioeconomic gaps and compounded challenges that families were already facing to meet their basic needs. An inability to meet basic needs increases a family’s risk of becoming food insecure.