A Food Systems Approach to Addressing Childhood Obesity
In order to effectively address the public health crisis presented by skyrocketing rates of obesity, cheap-calorie US food policy must be overhauled.
GRACE Communications Foundation
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Hunger and Obesity - Two Sides of the Same Broken Food System
Ellen Gustafson’s TED talk about hunger, obesity and how they're connected, and how the 30 Project will work on both.
Animal Feed
Unlike sustainable farmers who raise animals on pasture, industrial livestock producers rely on grain-based feed, which often includes many unsavory additives. Learn how this affects animals and humans.
How to Slap Big Ag Apologists in the Face with Economic Truth
Proponents of industrial agriculture constantly claim that sustainable food is too expensive. Learn these basic economic principles so you can tell them exactly why they're wrong.
Food Economics
The production, consumption, and distribution of food is closely tied to economic forces. Learn how subsidies, externalities, and agribusiness' market control affect what we eat.
Drought and the Food, Water and Energy Nexus
We're experiencing the food, water and energy nexus first-hand. The worst drought since 1956 will likely produce significant impacts on food and fuel prices and could cause urban water supplies in some regions of the country to dry up.
Environmental Working Group - Farm Subsidy Database
This database tracks $240 billion in farm subsidies from commodity, crop insurance, and disaster programs and $37 billion in conservation payments paid between 1995 and 2011.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - Farm Bill
Every five to seven years, agricultural policies are evaluated and reauthorized through the federal Farm Bill. The larger public is discovering that policies in the Farm Bill affect not just farmers here and around the world, but rural communities, the environment, health, hunger and even immigration. Learn more here.
Food and Water Watch - Farm Bill 101
The Farm Bill offers a critical opportunity to change federal farm and food policy. Instead of catering to agribusiness’s desire for cheap raw materials, our next Farm Bill should ensure functional, fair markets. Read more in the Food and Water Watch report.
Issue Paper: Know the Nexus
'Food, Water and Energy: Know the Nexus' explains how food, water and energy systems are connected, how and where these systems intersect, how they rely upon each other to function and how they can have a significant impact on each other.
Do You Know the Food, Water and Energy Nexus?
How are food, water and energy connected? Find out in "Food, Water and Energy: Know the Nexus," a new paper that explains how and where these systems intersect, how they rely upon each other to function and how they can have a significant impact on each other.
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (A Review)
Salt, sugar, fat. In recent years, they've lived at the center of a mighty battle between food industry marketers and "good food" advocates. Enter Michael Moss, whose must-read book does something a little different.
It's Not Groundhog Day - It's Time for the 2013 Farm Bill!
This is a big week for the 2013 Farm Bill. Ultimately, we're forecasting quite the floor fight as cuts to SNAP will again be the most contested part of this legislation which could rightly be referred to quite simply as the "Food Bill."
The 2013 Farm Bill is Off to the Floor Debates!
Last week, drafts of the nearly $955 billion 2013 Farm Bill legislation were passed through both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. The wild, wacky odyssey towards a new five-year farm bill continues - to what end is still unclear. Ahead: floor debates in the Senate and the House.
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