Well crafted presentation. Concise tutorial.
Kudos to the authors, Rod Howe, Katherine Lang, Bernadette Logozar, Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman, and Duncan Hilchey
My friend Dayna Conner at Food Works here in deep Southern Illinois pointed me to an upcoming webinar on Local and Regional Food Systems by Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) that led me to that presentation. Her organization's blog is here.
Showing posts with label Food Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Policy. Show all posts
Friday, April 02, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com
Jamie Oliver has a record of good works. He founded Fifteen
"Fifteen is a commercial business with a purpose – a global social enterprise with young people at its heart. Fifteen has four restaurants worldwide - Amsterdam, Cornwall, London and Melbourne – all of which operate a pioneering apprenticeship scheme for young people, between the ages of 18 and 24, alongside the day-to-day running of the restaurants."
Starting working in his family's pub at an early age, he later became famous as The Naked Chef, and has a direct, wonderful approach to food and sensible nutrition. He's recently won the TED Prize.
"Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food."
Strongly recommend his books and his elan for great simply prepared food. (Pizza crust: water. flour. bash it about. EZ PZ Bob's Your Uncle.)
Thursday, October 15, 2009
USDA Policy Encouraging Local Economic Growth
USDA changing policies to encourage local food production in an All Things Considered interview with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsak.
Know your farmer know your food is focusing on creating wealth in rural communities.
Note that the policy of emphasizing the economic clout of smaller scale producers on the local economy has become more of a focal point for policy: entrepreneurs matter, throughout the network that produces food.
This production network goes well beyond the farmer or rancher. It encompasses the systems and people supporting markets. Distribution companies, information technology, newly transformed landscape companies, web designers, broadband providers, retailers...
So the first law of ecology from Garrett Hardin: "You cannot do only one thing."
More of the story at: NPR.org - Farmers Markets: Fresh, Local, Government-Approved
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Thinking About The Farm Bill
The National Farm Bill's part of the defining "system" settings for how farms can innovate by virtue of "big dials" in the subsidy and tax mechanisms.
Michael Pollan, notes that:
Pollan goes into far more depth in his book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, I found it a slog but a valuable reference piece. Very worthwhile writing, though, and I think it is a "must read" for the, searching for right word.... conversations based upon data rather than belief. You'll catch many of the book's key points in the above article.
NB: He snipes at Twinkies, but thank goodness he did not dis Moon Pies and RC.
Michael Pollan, notes that:
"the current farm bill helps commodity farmers by cutting them a check based on how many bushels they can grow, rather than, say, by supporting prices and limiting production, as farm bills once did.
The result? A food system awash in added sugars (derived from corn) and added fats (derived mainly from soy), as well as dirt-cheap meat and milk (derived from both). By comparison, the farm bill does almost nothing to support farmers growing fresh produce. A result of these policy choices is on stark display in your supermarket, where the real price of fruits and vegetables between 1985 and 2000 increased by nearly 40 percent while the real price of soft drinks (a k a liquid corn) declined by 23 percent. The reason the least healthful calories in the supermarket are the cheapest is that those are the ones the farm bill encourages farmers to grow."
From: New York Times Magazine, April 22, 2007
The Way We Live Now: You Are What You Grow
By Michael Pollan
Will this year's farm bill make us fatter and sicker?
Pollan goes into far more depth in his book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, I found it a slog but a valuable reference piece. Very worthwhile writing, though, and I think it is a "must read" for the, searching for right word.... conversations based upon data rather than belief. You'll catch many of the book's key points in the above article.
NB: He snipes at Twinkies, but thank goodness he did not dis Moon Pies and RC.
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