“Community food security (CFS) is a relatively new food security-promoting strategy that considers all the factors within a region or community’s food system that influence the availability, cost, and quality of food to area households, particularly those in lower income communities. Since CFS focuses on regional and local food systems, it is concerned with the full range of food chain events including agriculture, the availability of supermarkets and other affordable outlets for quality food, the involvement of the wider citizenry and local and state governments in seeking solutions to food insecurity, and the services and environments that encourage healthy food choices including schools, nutrition service providers, and commercial food operations. While officially a movement since only 1994, CFS is now practiced by hundreds of organizations and communities across North America. These practitioners have engaged countless numbers of groups, volunteers, government and non-government representatives, and lower income people in projects and activities that have improved their communities’ capacity to meet their own food needs. Projects and activities include farmers’ markets, federal food assistance program outreach, community gardens, youth food and agriculture programs, farmland preservation and farm viability projects, food system planning and food policy councils, nutrition education and health promotion strategies, transportation projects, farm-to-school projects, economic development activities, and a range of public education and awareness campaigns.”