By FALPC Intern, Kristina Kalolo The Wallace Center recently released a report detailing “market-based, consumer-driven solutions for overcoming difficult food access and food equity issues.” Based on research from the Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development (HUFED) Center and numerous innovative projects people are implementing across the United States. The following is a summary of the […]
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Dethroning King Corn
By FALPC Intern, Kristina Kalolo Do you ever wonder what would happen if one-fourth of the nation’s agricultural land, and one-third of American’s calories, weren’t dedicated to corn? Well, lucky for you, the researchers over at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released “The Healthy Farmland Diet”. It is a study that examines what […]
Do you care more about the label on your food than who grew it?
By FALPC Intern, Kristina Kalolo Organic, GMO, grass-fed, free-range, natural, raw, vegan. For many consumers, these labels represent important social and environmental issues. While this is complicated but true, these categories also exist within a discourse that obscures the people behind these labels- the farmers and farmworkers who grow these foods, pick these foods, package […]