Food Production Working Group

Food Production:

Supports local farmers, fishers, ranchers, and other producers by identifying strategies to expand growing food production, market opportunities and processing infrastructure, including through the A Greener NOLA campaign.

  • a. Increasing access to land, stability of land acquisition

    i. ensuring city property leasing programs are transparent, equitable and reasonable, incentivizing urban agriculture enterprises.

    ii. Advocating for urban ag as a solution to blight

    iii. Promoting green roofs initiatives

    b. Identifying and changing laws that hinder simple processing, packaging, and selling of produce locally.

    c. Promoting investment in urban agriculture for stormwater management

  • a. informing food producers of their legal latitude to pursue agriculture.

  • a. Advocating for agriculture liaison with access across city government to advise and consult on all policy impacting city food networks