Notwithstanding its many problems, PolicyLink VP Judith Bell explains in Lessons from the Farm Bill that there are important provisions in the bill that form the "building blocks" for achieving healthy food access equity.  In addition to increases for funding for Food Stamps, the bill establishes a Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Center to increase access to healthy locally grown food to underserved communities, including communities of color.  The bill also provides support for farmer’s markets and access to them by poor people and support for socially disadvantaged farmers and farmworkers who are disproportionately people of color.  Please click on the title of Ms. Bell’s piece above for more details about the parts of the Farm Bill that promote food equity and about the advocacy groups and legislators who helped ensure that these provisions were included.   Also, look for the links to programs that provide grant money and other resources that might be helpful to food advocacy groups that you are working with.