Building the Appetite for Food Policy in National Politics
By Fiona McBride This year’s midterm elections reached a fever pitch unlike many midterms before, producing the highest voter turnout since 1966 and excruciatingly close […]
Food & Agricultural
Employing Monitoring & Evaluation to Improve Wildlife Conservation
By Ratna Sinroja A summer internship in wildlife conservation may sound like niche social work far removed from human problems. However, my organization, Maliasili, seeks […]
Food and Ag Policy under Trump: Farmers, Workers, and Eaters Have Plenty to Fight For
By Beth Spitler Many Americans think that food and agriculture policy has no role in their lives. You eat food, but you’re not a farmer […]
Urban Agriculture Act Increases Opportunities, Support for City Farmers
by Elizabeth Leuin Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently proposed the nation’s most comprehensive urban agriculture legislation. The Urban […]
How Federal Interventions Could Significantly Increase U.S. Food Recovery
by Michael Fleischmann Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported on the curious case of U.S. cheesemakers: they were sitting on a stockpile of […]
How Political Economy Can Inform the GM Labeling Debate
By Eunice Kim and Moon Parks In recent years, controversy surrounding genetically modified [GM] food has taken on a new dimension in the form of […]
Local Food Procurement in Times of Crisis
by Sasha Feldstein The most recent Farm Bill, officially known as the Agricultural Act of 2014, was probably most widely associated with an $8.6 billion cut […]