Below are the questions we sent the candidates.

1. How would your administration approach funding of the SNAP program and other nutrition assistance programs (like WIC)?

2. Do you support increasing wages and benefits (like paid sick leave) for food workers, who often are overly dependent on tips (in the case of restaurant workers) or are exempt from minimum wage laws (in the case of farm workers)?

3. Many Americans have expressed concerns about GMOs and would like to see a federal law mandating the labeling of products containing them. Would you support that or do you prefer voluntary labeling?

3. What would your administration do to address the lack of access to healthy, affordable food, a problem many communities in the U.S. share?

4. Some experts have questioned how effective the U.S. government’s dietary guidelines have been at encouraging Americans to eat more healthily — would you push for a change to how they are crafted?

5. Many experts have suggested that more U.S. farmers need to be growing more biodiverse crops beyond corn, soybeans and wheat. Do you agree? If so, what would you do to encourage more farmers to take a different approach to growing?

6. How would you administration approach government support for organic farming, particularly at the small and medium scale? Is more funding needed?

7. Do you feel the U.S. government should increase its regulation of the use of antibiotics with animals on farms that are not sick?

8. President Obama’s administration has made many efforts such as the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act to increase healthy eating among youth, particularly with changes to the national school lunch program. Would you continue this approach or, if not, how would you change it?