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Maui County Food and Nutrition Security Plan
Maui County Food and Nutrition Security Plan
The Maui County Food and Nutrition Security Plan was created to ensure that all Maui County residents have access to affordable, nutritious, culturally appropriate food. This plan acknowledges the power of our local food system as a driver of health, cultural connection, and resilience, especially for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and aims to facilitate measurable change in our food system by 2030.
Find a brief summary of the Food and Nutrition Security Plan’s goals and objectives here.
Developed through a multi-year process, the plan was shaped by hundreds of community members, including farmers, ranchers, fishers, hunters, foragers, educators, and public health professionals, and reflects the top food system needs and solutions identified by communities across Maui, Molokai, and Lānaʻi.
The Maui County Food and Nutrition Security Plan offers a comprehensive vision for the future of Maui County’s food systems. The plan outlines food’s impact on community health, from how it is grown, processed, and distributed to how it is shared, consumed and recovered. The plan is the result of extensive community engagement from more than 900 Maui County residents who participated in community meetings, talk story sessions, and surveys.
Illustration by Kelsey Ige
The planning process was led by the Maui County Department of Agriculture, the Maui Nui Food Alliance, Kamanani Conklin with New Venture Advisors, and Alice Liu with Hawai‘i Public Health Institute, with funding from Transforming Hawai‘i’s Food Systems Together initiative. Transforming Hawaiʻi’s Food System Together is a collaborative and multi-sectoral food system change initiative that seeks to convene key stakeholders, conduct applied research, articulate policy and planning recommendations and build statewide capacity to achieve a more economically robust, sustainable, equitable and resilient food system for Hawaiʻi.
The plan’s goals focus on increasing residents’ access to nourishing and culturally relevant foods, supporting producers to expand food production, building vibrant local food economies and profitable agriculture career pathways, and promoting responsible natural resource stewardship.
The Maui County Department of Agriculture has already started partnering with producers, community leaders, non-profits, small businesses, and government agencies to implement the plan’s actions. Annual reports will share the plan’s progress over the next five years.
If you have any questions about the plan, please contact the Maui County Department of Agriculture at Agriculture@co.maui.hi.us and (808) 270-8276.
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