Boston has a food system consisting of producers, processors, distributors, retailers that feeds over 645,000 people, and is now the first city of its size to study and assess food system resiliency.
- More than 100,000 people in Boston face food insecurity and living without adequate access to fresh, healthy food.
- After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, resiliency began to gain prevalence in Boston, which incentivized them to implement a number of sustainable programs (in food access programming, urban agriculture, resource distribution) that serves as the most progressive in the nation.
- Massachusetts has approximately 7,755 farms in production, covering over 523,000 acres, and an annual market value of $492 million dollars.