Municipal Food Justice Efforts

After reading the food justice efforts enacted by PSRFPC and the City of Seattle, it felt to me that, while progress is yet to be made, the City had more success in implementing and maintaining policies than PSRFPC. The interviews from those associated with PSRFPC seemed to lean slightly in the negative and pertaining to the pitfalls and gaps in progress made by the PSRFPC. There seemed to be a bit more gripe with the practices, or lack thereof, performed by the organization, whereas the City, with its own pitfalls and gaps, seemed to be attempting a lot of good, but are stuck behind bureaucratic nonsense and red tape. I felt the PSRFPC is making a lot of promises and not really even attempting to live up to them. I wondered why this was, as they are both municipal entities, they must struggle with the same obstacles and hurdles from larger governments; so why a seemingly smaller effort from the larger of the two? Well, I believe that is exactly why, because it is a municipal body covering a larger area of land. I wonder if as you move up in size of governmental bodies, does their effectiveness decrease? Are smaller, localized governments be more effective in implementing sustainable food security/sovereignty programs? I think a big driver in many of the issues we face in the 21st century is the amount of bureaucracy we face when doing something as simple as gardening or selling your own food. If people and communities are given the ability to create systems that work best for them, whether it be food, economic, or social sovereignty, I believe that long term viability of said system is achievable.