People's Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in our community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.

We want to change the way the food system works. We believe everyone should have access to healthy food, regardless of income. We call this "food justice" - the belief that healthy food is a human right. The food system is failing to provide low-income people with the healthy foods they need to thrive. It is also failing to create good jobs and support local food businesses in urban communities. So People’s Grocery works toward creating a food system that centralize the needs of the urban poor and develop programs and enterprises that produce and distribute fresh foods, provide nutrition education, promote urban agriculture and create local jobs.

People's Grocery has attracted local and national attention in our effort to transform the inner city food environment and address health problems in West Oakland. We pursue unique approaches to community health and food security that contribute new ways of solving our community's needs. Our efforts to build more innovation into our approaches has provided us with first hand knowledge and in-depth understanding of how to provide healthy foods and nutrition education to inner city residents. As the food system continues to decline our belief in new and bold solutions becomes stronger. This is the essence of how People's Grocery lives its mission in the community everyday.

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