About Us
Food First NL works with communities in Newfoundland & Labrador to ensure everyone has access to affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate food.
We are a provincial, non-profit organization that collaborates with a network of 300 like-minded organizations and individuals to improve food security in NL.
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Our Mission and Vision
Food First NL’s Mission is to advance everyone’s right to food in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Food First NL’s Vision is a province where everyone can eat with joy and dignity.
We accomplish our Mission by:
Advocating
Organizing
Taking Action
Valuing People
Read more about our goals, approach, and guiding principles in our Strategic Framework.
20 Years of Advancing Food Security in NL
Twenty years of hands-on food security work has made us the leader in advancing food security in NL.
We thoroughly understand the complexities of food security issues in our province, as well as who needs to be engaged to advance these issues, and, the best practices that exist to improve them.
Our extensive and diverse network of partners reaches across all sectors and regions of the province. We have a proven ability to effectively engage and mobilize key players on common goals and actionable work that is advancing food security in our province.
