A Summary of “Innovations in Local Food Enterprise”

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 […]

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 […]

Debunking Food Labels: Five Deceiving Terms

The food industry has a wide range of terms, labels, and buzzwords that are used to draw in consumers. Oftentimes these labels can be misleading and cover up inconvenient realities. 1) Free-Range Poultry & Eggs- While this encourages thoughts of chickens roaming on spacious fields, the reality is often the opposite. To be “free-range” means the […]