# Making the Food System More Equitable
## Strategies to reduce food insecurity
> TODO
> - highlight the need to reduce Food Insecurity
> - provide a common definition of Food Insecurity
Below are identified strategies to reduce Food Insecurity before, and Address Food insecurity during a disaster.
- Strategies to directly feed hungry people
* [[Direct Food Support To Providers]]
- Directly from local wholesalers
- Through food bank Partners
- Food recovery
- [[Farm to food bank]]
- TEFAP
- Strategies to Increase Buying Power
- increased enrollment in SNAP
- increased enrollment in WIC
- Maryland Market Money
- Strategies to strengthen local supply chain
- Local Ag
- [[Farm to food bank]]
- Land use regulatory changes
- Local cleaning and repackaging (schools might use this)
- Strategies to Prepare for disruption
- Stockpiling
- Data collection, alerting, and system health