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Food Security
Toward a Better Food System: Empowering Communities and Regulating Corporations
How we have landed ourselves with a global food system that generates hunger alongside of obesity, and what can we do about it?
Food Stamps Are Worth Double at These Michigan Farmers Markets – Helping Families and Local Businesses
The USDA is putting $31 million behind a program that helps low-income families take home twice the veggies, and local farmers make twice the money.
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“Food Safety Policies Are Globally Necessary” Says World Health Organization
Environmental problems are a threat to food security.
Can We End the Privatization of Seeds?
The next 10 years must build on successes to reclaim seed sovereignty.
One Food Security Remedy in the Face of Global Crises
Once known mostly as a Pacific Island crop, breadfruit is now grown around the world as a sustainable means of fighting hunger.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Beans May Help to Curb Harms of Climate Change, and More
Thirty new lines of “heat-beater” beans have been discovered.
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Native Villagers in Honduras Bet on Food Security – and Win
Town Mayor Sandro Martinez, assumed the commitment of turning the Honduran municipality of Victoria into a model of food and nutritional security.
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The Poor Suffer From Hunger – Not the Munchies
Drug-testing for food stamps wastes taxpayer money and stigmatizes economic hardship.
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“We Couldn’t Possibly Be Poor”: How a Doctor Fell Into Poverty
As we found ourselves choosing between rice, oatmeal, or potatoes for every meal, it occurred to us that being in poverty isn't about how hard you work; it's about …
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We Can’t Go On Eating Like This
With more of us crowding a warming planet, we need agricultural change.