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BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – Bringing locally grown, farm-fresh foods into school lunchrooms in California; marketing the fruits and vegetables of black farmers in Illinois to an inner city neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side; and helping small-scale hog farmers in North...
The Food and Society Policy Fellows program recently announced its request for applicants for the 2003-2005 class of fellows. The application deadline is Feb. 24, 2003. With primary financial support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Food and Society Policy...
BEULAH - Three Michigan congressmen are co-sponsoring innovative legislation that would break open new markets for the state's blue-ribbon growers; supply fresher, healthier food to nearby school children; and help communities protect land from sprawling development. The bill offers one...
While several metropolitan areas have burgeoned and some rural communities have made a successful economic transition, economic shadows have darkened in many Southern rural and urban places that have no distinctive competitive advantages in today's economy, according to State of...
Over 800 million people worldwide will go to bed hungry tonight. While there are many organizations dedicated to disaster or emergency relief for the hungry, there is a need to address sustainable food security in the developing world. Foods Resource...
Food and Society Policy Fellows Francis Thicke and Denise O'Brien, and Jim Petterson, director of public affairs for The Nature Conservancy, gave more than 20 interviews to farm radio and TV reporters at the recent National Association of Farm Broadcasters...
Food and Society Policy Fellowship Announces New Class On July 25, 2002, the Food and Society Policy Fellowship announced the new class of fellows. The fellows will serve for a two-year term beginning September 1, 2002. The recipients of the...
The United Mine Workers of America protested CBS's announced plans to produce "The Real Beverly Hillbillies" reality television series during Viacom's annual meeting, May 21, 2003, in New York. Viacom is the TV network's parent company. The protest drew the...
PINE BUSH, NY -- As a service to its partners, the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (National Campaign) is pleased to offer the Federal Sustainable Agriculture Program Primer. This resource compiles basic information on a wide range of the programs...
Southern Community Development Institute Organizations interested in expanding the pool of people who can carry out sound community development work and want to gain high quality education resources that can be used to deliver an introductory program on community development...