2026 Annual Sustainability Report
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Food Systems
City Objective: Foster a just, environmentally sustainable, prosperous, equitable, and resilient community-based food system for O‘ahu.
◀️ Stations of Abundance hosted a food distribution event at Skyline’s Hō‘ae‘ae Station with a mobile food pantry and mākeke mahiʻai (farmers market) to bring fresh, healthy, and local food closer to where people live and commute.
Credit: Office of Economic Revitalization
2025 marked a year of rethinking and expanding where Oʻahu grows, shares, and accesses food.
Stations of Abundance emerged as an interagency initiative to transform Skyline stations into community-centered hubs for food access, public health, and resilience. The initiative grew out of Honolulu’s selection as a finalist in the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025 Mayor’s Challenge, receiving $50,000 to prototype innovative uses of Skyline stations to improve food access. Pilot events at two stations—including farmers markets, mobile food pantry services, and food and cultural planting projects—received overwhelmingly positive community feedback.
Together, these efforts show how public infrastructure can go beyond transit, creating spaces where local farmers share their products, residents access food, and community connections grow.
The City also celebrated a major milestone last year: 50 years of the Recreational Community Gardening Program! Building on this legacy, the City is working to expand access to community gardening. In 2025, the City proposed a new garden at Asing Community Park—identified through community input and site analysis as a strong opportunity to bring green space and gardening to underserved nearby residents. The City also finalized the first comprehensive update to its community garden rules in four decades. The updated rules modernize City processes and ensure these treasured community spaces remain safe, equitable, and sustainable for years to come.
Efforts like these are helping to inform the City’s first-ever Oʻahu Food Systems Plan—a comprehensive, community-driven roadmap that outlines concrete actions the City can take to strengthen the island’s food system over the next five years. Learn more and stay engaged as the draft plan approaches public release in summer 2026: resilientoahu.org/foodsystems.
Key Performance Indicators
Household Food Insecurity
Percent of O‘ahu Households Experiencing Food Insecurity, Over a 12-Month Period
Economic Vulnerability & Food Insecurity
Percent of O‘ahu Households Below the Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (ALICE) Threshold, by Zip Code and Rate of Food Insecurity
SNAP Eligibility Gap
Percent of Food Insecure Persons, by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Eligibility
Food Assistance Map
Geographic Locations of Food Assistance Services and Providers, by Assistance Type
Emergency Food Preparedness
Percent of O‘ahu Households with Recommended 14-Day Store of Food, Water and Medical Supplies