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Climate Change and Food Systems
We must identify ways to help shift dietary behavior to reduce meat consumption and food waste.
| | News and Announcements | A new survey by CLF finds that food date labels confuse consumers, lead to waste. | Latest from Our Blog | Our Netherlands correspondent tells us that farmers know they have to do something different if they are going to survive. | Events and Multimedia | Kirschenmann offers his vision of how we might face the future with respect to shifts and trends in land use, agriculture and food. View all Past Events | Highlighted Resources | This free, downloadable curriculum provides high school students with a deep understanding of critical food system issues, empowers them to make healthy and responsible food choices, and encourages them to become advocates for food system change. | |
| Our work is driven by the concept that public health, diet, food production and the environment are deeply interrelated and that understanding these relationships is crucial in pursuing a livable future. | Food System Policy ProgramThe Center’s Food System Policy (FSP) program includes a diverse portfolio of projects and activities that aim to advance federal, state and local agriculture and food policies that protect the public’s health and the environment by supporting a healthy, equitable, and sustainable food system. Read More>>  Food ProductionAt a time of unprecedented levels of food production, little about the industrial food production model is critically analyzed to reveal its hidden or externalized costs and unintended negative effects. Many of today’s industrial agriculture practices profoundly damage our soil, air, water, and ecosystem. Read More>>  Food CommunitiesThe Center’s Food Communities and Public Health (FCPH) program focuses on developing relationships with communities to improve food environments, increase access to healthy food, and inform food and nutrition policy. Read More>>  Food System SustainabilityOur long-term food security is under increasing stress. A convergence of issues—climate change, resource depletion, dysfunctional farm policies, and loss of biodiversity, among them—now threaten the availability of healthy food for an ever-increasing population. Read More>>  |  |  |
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