Specifications include, but are not limited to: food production and distribution systems, including those representing farms, retailers, food banks, school meal programming (including summer meal sites), fisheries, processors, and other food system businesses and community and health organizations who are facing disruptions (food producing, sourcing, packaging, transportation and distribution) or high demand due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting increase in food insecurity. The grant program acknowledges that producers and meal distribution sites currently do not have sufficient infrastructure to provide direct-to-consumer sales or to get food to vulnerable and insecure communities and populations, which is creating food supply challenges across the state and exacerbating food insecurity for vulnerable populations. Therefore, this program will provide flexible resources to entities to support efforts to adapt to supply chain disruptions and to provide greater access to local food in a way that supports customer and worker safety.