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BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, June 2, 2004 — The W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced today it will award $8 million in grants to foster entrepreneurship across rural America. Four grants of up to $2 million each will be awarded to four rural...
More than 6,000 acres of valuable shoreline and farmland adjacent to Lake Michigan will be permanently preserved thanks, in part, to a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. In October 2003, the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy (GTRLC), a Food...
BATON ROUGE - With the help of a $1.2 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, historically Black Grambling State University is working with two predominantly White universities to help the impoverished Mississippi Delta area pull itself up by its...
The importance of small-scale manufacturing for West Virginia’s economy was highlighted at the “Made Right Here” Summit, June 20 – 21, 2004, in Charleston. The two-day event convened more than 150 small-scale manufacturers, economic developers, practitioners and policy makers in...
K.C. Organics and Natural Market is pleased to announce a new home in Minor Park just south of I-435, and east of Holmes on Red Bridge Road (111th St) in Kansas City. The new location marks the initiation of a...
Farm programs have an impact on farm households and farm communities as well as agricultural commodity markets. To address this important policy area, the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP) and the Economic Research Service (ERS) will hold...
The Food and Nutrition Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) developed a Web site on obesity in childhood. This was developed to coincide with National Public Health Week April 7-13, focusing on overweight and obesity. The Web site...
Enrique Iglesias, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), was in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco on August 22, 2003, to sign a partnership agreement with the state government to raise literacy among children and adults. Iglesias visited Campo da...
In April, Mid South Delta Leaders class members participated in a tri-state summit titled, The Delta . . . What Vision? Whose Vision? The summit was organized around the study of three systems: education; economic development and public policy; and...
Newswise Consumers who participated in a recent marketing survey were enthusiastic about locally grown food and supportive of the farmers who grow it. The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University conducted the study. "The term locally grown,...