Wins for food access and low-income families at the 2025 legislative session

Every family in Hawaiʻi deserves access to nourishing, affordable, and culturally meaningful food. Such access is a basic human necessity, and fulfilling this need has cascading benefits for all of society. Food equity also means fair wages, fair prices, indigenous stewardship of land, and community control over food systems.

Hawaiʻi Appleseed supports the Hawaiʻi Hunger Action Network, a statewide collective of partners working to end hunger. This session, the Network prioritized legislation in three key areas to advance food equity and support Hawaiʻi’s low income families. Here is a look at how these priorities fared now that the 2025 session is complete.