Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics

The Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics report provides comprehensive metrics regarding food and agriculture in the United States for measuring racial equity status in food systems, which are intentionally selected and categorized by Food Access, Food and Farm Business, Food Chain Labor, and Food Movement for the purpose of county, state, or national use. The majority have been established or recommended by food system experts. For practical purposes, each metric includes a set of measures with a specific purpose, scale, unit of analysis, data type, methodology, data source, and data availability.

This document provides metrics that can be emulated or adapted to measure racial equity status or track progress in food systems. It would be similarly helpful for folks developing metrics in general as model examples.