USDA food buying policies that could support local, smaller, underserved, climate-conscious, labor-conscious, or diet-specific food suppliers.
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“USDA should consider whether food has lower climate impacts, whether suppliers limit deforestation and protect biodiversity, and whether suppliers can back those claims with records showing where food came from.”
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“USDA should give more weight to food sellers that have union contracts, worker justice certifications, or similar documented labor protections.”
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“USDA should give new, veteran, socially disadvantaged, small, and medium-sized food producers and groups that mostly buy from them a clearer path to federal food contracts, including competitive contract opportunities and at least $2 million a year in dedicated purchases from fiscal years 2026 through 2031.”
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“USDA should buy more food from smaller, newer, veteran, and socially disadvantaged farmers, ranchers, and fishers, including at least $2 million a year in competitive contracts for those producers and groups that mostly source from them.”
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“USDA should measure how covered food-buying money is spent, set 2032 goals for increasing priority purchases, publicly report the businesses and producers connected to those purchases, and update Congress each year on spending, suppliers, emissions estimates, and the best-value pilot.”
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“USDA should weigh more than the lowest price when buying food, including whether purchases support selected producers, stronger supply chains, worker well-being, and environmental or climate benefits, with a five-year test that uses this approach for at least 20 percent of covered food spending each year.”
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“USDA should count food from co-ops, producer groups, food hubs, local or regional suppliers, certified organic farms, and animal-welfare-certified farms as supporting stronger and more varied food supply chains.”
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“USDA should include foods that can serve people with religious diets or other restricted diets when it buys food for USDA-supported food programs.”
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