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| | News and Announcements | New Research Offers Fresh Insights on Local Foraging Practices and Wild Foods. | Latest from Our Blog |  Our Netherlands correspondent tells us that farmers know they have to do something different if they are going to survive. The students shared what they have experienced personally when they’ve skipped a meal and are feeling hungry: anger, exhaustion, grumpiness and shakiness topped the list. People working to push back on Iowa’s hog confinement industry—the underdogs in this fight—have finally found a few notes that resonate on a large scale. In the spirit of National Nutrition Month, eating less meat can help you pack in more nutrient-dense foods you might be missing out on while reducing your impact on natural resources and the environment.
| 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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