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Tapping Into Innovative Practices to Feed the World: An Interview with Mark...
Originally published at Worldwatch Institute Nourishing the Planet.How do agricultural policies affect the local and global market?read more
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Understanding the Farm Bill: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Food System
What do farmers, public health professionals, food justice advocates, environmentalists, anti-poverty organizers and economic development authorities have in common? Probably an awful lot, but most...
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Baltimore "Food Czar" making waves
Baltimore "Food Czar" and IATP Food and Society Fellow Holly Freishtat has been making a big splash since she was appointed Baltimore's first Food Policy Director last spring. In a city with numerous...
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What the Mid-term Elections Mean for the Upcoming Farm Bill
By Andy FisherOriginally published on Civil Eats. Is there a silver lining in Tuesday’s election for our movement’s efforts to reform food and farm policy in the upcoming Farm Bill? Andy Fisherread more
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“Let’s Have the Pentagon Pop some Bucks for School Lunch”
The Los Angeles Times just profiled Huntington Ranch, a 15-acre project to promote urban gardens. This is an exciting effort to demonstrate the potential for vegetable gardens, orchards, and food...
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Stick a Fork in It: Pass The Child Nutrition Act
By Deb EschmeyerOriginally published on the Huffington Post.We are preparing for the most thoroughly planned meal in America, and it's not Thanksgiving dinner. It's school lunch. We are preparing for...
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SNAP and Soda: Who's Business is it Anyway?
View a portion of our December 1 Webinar Our December 1 webinar discussed the New York SNAP soda ban and its national implications. read more
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Healthy Kids, Food Safety and Pigford: This lame duck is ruffling its food...
The House of Representatives yesterday approved the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307), which is now in the pipeline for President Obama's signature. According to the CFSC press release, the bill...
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The problem with cheap food
IATP Food and Community Fellow Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing, provided commentary on soaring food prices yesterday on NPR's Marketplace: IATP Food and Community...
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Can the World Feed 10 Billion People?
By Raj PatelFirst published in Foreign Policy, May 4, 2011 Malawi's swaying fields are a battleground in which three different visions for the future of global agriculture are ranged against one other....
View ArticleHolly Freishtat’s work in Baltimore bearing fruit
Holly Freishtat’s work in Baltimore sustainable food policy has been bearing fruit.Holly Freishtatread more
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The High Cost Of Anti-Immigrant Laws
By Greg Asbed and Sean Sellers Originally published in The Nation and NPR. Sean Sellers and Greg Asbed of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers explain how the recent wave of anti-immigrant laws is...
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Class Wars and the Soda Tax
A shorter version of this piece appeared on American Public Media's Marketplace. With half of the sugar in US diets coming from sweetened beverages, advocates of a "soda-tax" look like they've got a...
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Raise More Voices for Effective Farm Policy - Now!
The projected course of action regarding the Farm Bill changed dramatically over the past two weeks. The general expectation was a spring 2012 Farm Bill, with the possibility that Presidential election...
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Politics in my Pizza: Concientización for Kids
Texas – In a cozy yellow and blue classroom, a group of animated elementary-aged youth share drawings of their families eating their favorite dinners and find as many similarities as they do...
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Racism in Food Policy in New Orleans
Food is more than just stuff that we put into our mouths. It’s our fuel, and it affects not only how long we live, but our quality of life and our capacity to influence our environment. The World Food...
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Jim Goodman to Occupy Wall Street: "I'm trying to feed you. The corporations...
On December 4, farmers, including Wisconsin dairy farmer and IATP Food and Community Fellow Jim Goodman, joined Occupy Wall Street to speak out against the abuse of corporate power and how it impacts...
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Gearing Up for the 2012 Food Bill
Originally published in the Green Fire TimesDon Bustosread more
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Orange juice not as safe as it seems
Alissa Hamilton has been studying orange juice for years, so it's not surprising that she's the expert the media turn to when something goes awry with that classically American beverage. With the...
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One Nation, Underfed
Originally posted on rajpatel.org Raj Patel discusses Newt Gingrich’s poisonous comments on Obama being the food stamp president. Raj Patelread more
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U.S. cities get good-food savvy
Holly Freishtat may be the "food czar" of Baltimore, but she's also finding herself near the front of a nationwide charge for healthier cities across the country.Holly Freishtatread more
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Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food: USDA launches new online tool
By Rose Hayden-Smith; Originally posted on her Victory Grower Blog.Dr. Rose Hayden-Smithread more
View ArticleNina Kahori Fallenbaum, Writer and Policy Expert
Nina Kahori Fallenbaum wants Asian Americans to have a voice in creating a better food and farming system in America. Learn more about her storytelling and policy advocacy work in Asian American...
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What's at stake in the 2012 Farm Bill?
The U.S. Farm Bill—arguably the nation’s largest and most influential food policy tool—is written by Congress every five years. It includes far-reaching programs for crop production, farmers, rural...
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Are American Eating Habits Really So Bad?
Originally published on Zocalo Public Square. Americans eat worse than people in many developed countries. Cheryl Danleyread more
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Squeezing Tropicana
The all-American breakfast beverage is not what you think—and IATP Food and Community Fellow Alissa Hamilton has long been arguing for greater transparency from the orange juice industry. The...
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Video: Why Parents Should Care About the Farm Bill
Parent Earth's “Parents Stand Up For Food” Campaign is intended to educate the public about the Farm Bill. We invite people to get involved by organizing screenings and discussions on the Farm Bill to...
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On Bloomberg, Liberty and the Big Gulp
Originally posted at Rajpatel.org Raj Patel weighs-in on Mayor Bloomberg's limit to soft drink portion sizes. Raj Patelread more
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Video: What's at Stake in the 2012 Farm Bill? Health, Innovation and Equity
Named one of "Nine Innovative Food Websites You Can't Live Without" by Forbes, IATP's What's at Stake Series takes a fresh look at seven key issues for the 2012 Farm Bill. As debate of the 2012 farm...
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Droughts and Mirages in Washington and Beyond
Published earlier today in the Guardian, some thoughts on the drought, dustbowl, and what it’s going to take to get politicians off their knees. Here’s a version with added links and references. Raj...
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Why the Farm Bill Matters to Asian Americans
Originally published in The Rafu Shimpo. Introducing AAPI Food Action, a website and information campaign on food and farm policy in the Asian American community. The Matsumoto family farming onions in...
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Chef as diplomat: Bryant Terry selected for State Department's American Chef...
IATP Food and Community Fellow Bryant Terry was named a member of the American Chef Corps, part of the State Department's Diplomatic Culinary Partnership. The American Chef Corps will create a network...
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What an expiring Farm Bill means to you
It has always been an amusing pastime for agricultural policy wonks to envision what would happen if a Farm Bill was allowed to expire. Nobody actually thought that it could come to fruition; after...
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The Government Should Follow Our Lead on Food
Earlier this summer, the Association of Food Journalists invited me to moderate a debate on food policy between representatives of the Obama and Romney campaigns at their annual conference in...
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The Government Can Start With Women and Infants
The government has a responsibility to help create a healthier and more equitable food system. This is mostly because many of the inequities of the food system were either created by or have been aided...
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Good Policy Means Engaging With Communities
More than once, I’ve told myself or others: “I don’t work on policy issues, they take up too much time to implement and have little impact on my community anyway.” And rightfully so – oftentimes policy...
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Support Resilient Solutions to Community Food Needs
When First Lady Michelle Obama announced, in February of 2010, the launch of the Let's Move! Campaign to end childhood obesity, she said that eliminating the 6,500 food deserts that exist in the U.S....
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Nurture Grassroots Food Policy Councils
Detroit is an example of what happens to a city that suffers from disinvestment, unemployment, racial inequities, white flight, middle class Black flight, widespread poverty, drugs, poor schools, and...
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Make USDA the People's Department
Does the government have a role to play in creating a fair and healthy food system? Is a fair and equitable food system even possible? And if so, whose job is it? In the current politically charged...
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Education is the Answer, for Government as Well as Consumers
There certainly hasn’t been a lack of policy discussion or federal funding to attempt to get kids eating healthy. Countless employees at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of...
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Fund Progressive Food Programs in Cities that Need Them
In 2010, the City of New Orleans unveiled the Fresh Food Retailer Initiative (FFRI) – a government incentive program based on the successful Fresh Food Financing Initiative in Pennsylvania, designed to...
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Pass a Farm Bill Now
Congress has demonstrated a historic level of dysfunction by allowing the farm bill to expire on October 1st. If our legislators can’t get their act together and pass a bill before the end of the year,...
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Government Is What We Make Of It
What do we want it to be? Because that is what it will be. I don’t believe “The Government” is a scary demon far removed from our plebeian lives. Government is nothing more than an imperfect set of...
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Government's Seat at the Dinner Table
What is government’s role in creating a more just and healthy food system?The Norman Rockwell painting “Freedom from Want” is a tribute to one of the four freedoms that President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Restrain Corporate Power and Influence in the Food System
First, I have a confession and a declaration of interest. I worked at an international development bank, and regret it. As a consequence, for better and worse, I am occasionally confronted with the...
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Honor and Restore the Right of the People to Feed Themselves
For the Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest, our traditional food system is inextricably intertwined with our identity, and it’s crucial that government food policies honor that bond. The...
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Would you like more figs with that? Pass a Farm Bill for Farm-to-School
Imagine walking through the lunch line at school, your tummy rumbling as you watch your tray being filled with steaming enchiladas, beans and salad. You can’t wait to start eating, but as you reach the...
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Detroit: A Raisin in the Sun?
Council member Ken Cockrel must be trippin’! The Detroit City Council's decision to approve the Hantz Woodlands Project, the largest and cheapest transfer of public property in the city's history, has...
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The one issue food activists should focus on
Ask a dozen food activists what political change they want to see in 2013 and you’ll get a dozen different answers, maybe two dozen: Restrict sodium in packaged foods. Label genetically modified...
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Cliff Avoided, but Democracy's Future in Question
Originally published on the Huffington Post.An incredible whirlwind of activity occurred in Washington amidst two weeks of holidays, and the happy result was an avoidance of the so-called fiscal cliff....
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