CHL Food Systems

At a time of rising food costs and new environmental and post-pandemic challenges that influence food access and availability for children and families, the Food System Resiliency for Children’s Healthy Living Program, or CHL Food Systems, is working to increase food and nutrition security and healthy diets among children in Guam. 

Over a five-year span concluding in 2026, the program will create a model of the local food supply chain. This model can then provide guidance toward decreasing food waste and improving food and nutrition security, dietary patterns, and health among children.

The grant will also guide the nutrition education programs offered to the community under UOG Cooperative Extension & Outreach. 

This U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food & Agriculture-funded project in Guam is one of five Pacific locations for the program under the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

The first phase of the program, known as the Children’s Healthy Living Program, resulted in a decrease in young child obesity in the Pacific region. 

Learn more about CHL at www.chl-pacific.org.

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This project is funded by Grant No. 2021-68012-35899, awarded to the University of Hawaii at Manoa from the USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture for a five-year term ending August 2026. University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach is a sub-grantee, receiving $597,267 to carry out the program in Guam, which is one of five U.S.-affiliated insular areas included in the project.