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Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food: USDA launches new online tool
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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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