ROH §2-10.8
City office runs a food security and sustainability program
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section creates a city office program to coordinate food security, sustainability, and climate resilience work. The office will develop a city-wide food plan, build partnerships, give technical help, and work with groups on food and farming issues. It focuses on helping communities that have lacked access to healthy, affordable food.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Food security and sustainability program
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) The office shall establish and manage a food security and sustainability program to coordinate actions and policies of departments and agencies within the city related to food security, sustainability, and climate resilience.
(b) As set forth in subsection (a), the office shall develop or coordinate actions with city departments and agencies to implement the following:
(1) The development, implementation, and reporting of objectives in a city-wide food system development plan that advances food security, self-sufficiency and sustainability for the food system within the city;
(2) The development of federal, state, and nonprofit partnerships and funding sources to encourage community alignment to increase food security, including local food supply, production, transportation and distribution, especially to frontline communities that have historically lacked access to healthy and affordable local food supplies;
(3) The provision of technical assistance to city departments and agencies and other partners in the development of programs, projects, external partnerships, and federal, state, and private funding proposals to attract resources to the city related to achieving food security and sustainability; and
(4) Coordinating with public, private, and nonprofit groups working to address issues of the food and agricultural systems within the city, including the sustainability and vulnerability of these systems in the face of natural disasters, climate change impacts, and other disruptions.
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