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September 6, 2007
On 16 October 2007, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will celebrate World Food Day with the theme The Right to Food. The Right to Food is the right of every person to have regular access
to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food
for an active, healthy life. It is the right to feed oneself in
dignity, rather than the right to be fed.
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Fair Food Farm Bill Video |
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August 28, 2007
Twinkie vs. Apple Showdown
Check out the latest video from the makers of The Meatrix. This time, they take on The Farm Bill. Please send the link to friends and family. To learn more about the Farm Bill, see the Farm Bill 101 from Food and Water Watch , and keep up to date on Farm Bill 2007 organizing with the Community Food Security Coalition , Community Alliance with Family Farmers , the California Coalition for Food and Farming , and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture .
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Guest Blog - Planning Fellow Brahm Ahmadi |
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Voices from the Field
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A 2007 ROC Fellow, Brahm is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of People’s Grocery and a leader noted for commitment to social justice, cooperative economics and access to healthy food for low-income, inner-city communities. Brahm is leading an effort to create a new retail format for West Oakland that will model a way to overcome the challenge of urban food deserts. Brahm is also active in organizing for economic democracy and was a founding board member of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
August 23, 2007
When I attended the ROC Statewide meeting on March 3 in San Francisco I was simultaneously inspired and disappointed by what I observed. On the one hand, I was inspired by the momentum and resources being placed behind such a necessary and important vision. On the other hand, I was disappointed that there were so few people of color in attendance, that the vision was not entirely inclusive of truly diverse perspectives and that the leadership of ROC, and those who were its spokes people, were mostly of homogenous ethnic and political backgrounds.
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August 22, 2007
Today's New York Times included a great article by Joan Nathan: Of Church and Steak: Farming for the Soul . Joan writes about the work being done across the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths to encourage sustainable agriculture, CSAs, responsible meat consumption and stewardship of the land within these faith communities.
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New Report on 10 Years of California Farm to School |
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August 21, 2007
The Center for Food & Justice at Occidental College has just announced the release of a new report on ten years of Farm to School in California - A Growing Movement: A Decade of Farm to School in California. The farm to school movement began in California more than 10 years ago. This report tells the story of work undertaken by farm to school proponents in California and chronicles the emergence of the program, and the impacts it has had on students, farmers, and communities around the state.
Visit the centers website to download the report: http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj/index.htm
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Guest Blog - Planning Fellow Hannah Laurison |
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Voices from the Field
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A ROC 2007 Planning Fellow, Hannah is a policy analyst with the Public Health Law Program’s Land Use and Health project , where she specializes in community and economic development. Prior to joining PHLP, she staffed an $80 million public-private initiative that worked to develop new grocery stores in Pennsylvania’s low-income communities.
August 10, 2007
When I was invited to participate in the Roots of Change Planning Fellows program, I challenged myself to learn as much as possible from the other Fellows about how each of their perspectives on the food system might be applied to my work with urban planners and public health advocates. I am trained as an urban planner to think about how the built environment affects our interactions with other people and with the environment. In my current position at Public Health Law & Policy, I train public health professionals to use the tools of land use planning to increase access to healthy food in underserved communities.
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School Lunch Funding Opportunity |
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Here's a great funding opportunity for school lunch:
Hidden Valley Announces Expanded Love Your Veggies Grant Campaign
Deadline: November 30, 2007
The Hidden Valley Food Products Company http://hiddenvalley.com/ ,
a subsidiary of the Clorox Company http://www.clorox.com/ ,
will be awarding more than half a million dollars in total grants
in 2008 to elementary schools across the United States to support
increased access to, and consumption of, fresh vegetables during
lunch.
The grant program -- the Love Your Veggies Nationwide
School Lunch Campaign -- was created to help schools implement
a recent federally mandated local wellness policy that requires
schools to develop and execute programs to improve their students'
overall health and nutrition, and in response to the overwhelming
shortage of funds available for the execution of these programs.
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