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  • The Farm to Food Bank Movement Aims to Rescue Small-Scale Farming and Feed the Hungry Audio icon

    May 14, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Supply chains have been disrupted with the restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic, and farmers are suffering from a lack of buying customers. Meanwhile, food banks are in dire straits as more and more people seek support after losing jobs to the pandemic. What's needed? A middle man. This article looks at a range of solutions across the United States in which organizations and community groups are stepping up to fill the gap between the two needs. They largely do this by purchasing, packaging, and distributing surplus product to local food banks who need more donations for the community.

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  • Amid Covid-19, a Call for M.D.s to Mail the Abortion Pill

    May 12, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Amid the pandemic, medical researchers and an abortion-rights advocacy group in the U.S. are working to make the abortion pill available via mail. Although there is ambiguity surrounding the rules and regulations of how the pill must be distributed to patients, some doctors have helped efforts by agreeing to register with F.D.A.-approved manufacturers and a handful of states are allowing the pill to be mailed after an in-person ultrasound has been conducted.

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  • Starved for Action, Bettors Turn Nebraska Horse Track Into Must-See TV

    May 12, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Island, Nebraska

    The restrictions imposed by the coronavirus have turned horseracing in Nebraska into an unexpected boon. City officials allowed racing tracks to be open—with precautions—because the horses' livelihoods depend on the jockeys' livelihoods. The grandstands are empty, masks are worn, and temperatures are taken regularly. People from all over the country are betting on the horses online, providing some income, albeit less money than usual. They are also enjoying the increase interest as a way to educate people on Nebraska's history with horse racing.

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  • Local Farms Adapt To Pandemic's Impact — And Thrive

    May 07, 2020 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    When restaurants and farmers markers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hearts of Harvest Farm teamed up with the drive-thru restaurant Cafe Racer to sell their produce to people in the Athens/Atlanta area. They created a socially distanced, drive-thru grocery experience where customers would preorder their produce boxes online and pick them up without having to leave their vehicle. The first week, they sold 97 boxes and now they are selling out each week.

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  • The Underground Efforts to Get Masks to Doctors

    May 07, 2020 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Communities and medical professionals are working together to create their own mutual aid supply chain as shortages of personal protective equipment plague U.S. hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. This "temporary but necessary" solution has helped disperse nearly 200,000 masks and thousands of gloves, gowns, goggles, and face shields to hospitals throughout the country by using using community members as the quality control and delivery team for equipment provided by local suppliers.

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  • Live-streaming helped China's farmers survive the pandemic. It's here to stay.

    May 06, 2020 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: China

    Online retailers in China launched rural live-streaming initiatives to aid farmers in selling their products directly to consumers. After traditional selling methods were halted due to the novel coronavirus, farmers needed new sales channels to reach customers who now had to shop online. This new model could help the agricultural industry survive the pandemic.

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  • Cooperative Connection Gets PPE from Appalachia to the Bronx

    May 05, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    A home health care cooperative, based in NY, turned to a worker-owned cut and sew cooperative, based in NC, to produce masks for their employees when they were unable to source them elsewhere. The cost of masks and gloves became too high for Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker-owned cooperative in the country. And hospitals and nursing homes were first in line for government assistance securing PPE. The textile cooperative has sent 500 more affordable and reusable masks a week for the home health workers and hopes to double that to 1000 per week soon.

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  • The man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

    May 03, 2020 |

    The Hustle |

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    Response Location: United States, Gustavus, Alaska

    To better meet the demands created by the coronavirus pandemic, a local grocer in a remote town in Alaska is redefiing and reforming how the local supply chain operates. A series of preemptive moves – such as creating partnerships with suppliers and purchasing their own barge – gave the father-and-son grocer team more control over operations and has allowed the store to offer supplies that have been in high demand nationwide.

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  • Coronavirus necessity is the mother of this invention

    May 01, 2020 |

    New Hampshire Business Review |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    To help deliver hand sanitzer to those who need it during the coronavirus pandemic, a distillery owner in Vermont and a lacrosse equipment online distributor in New Hampshire formed a partnership to create a distribution system. With the distillery the making hand santizer and the lacrosse equipment distributor handling the packaging and shipping, the collaboration has allowed for the sanitzer to reach more of the general public at a faster rate.

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  • The Rescue Operation Bridging a Food Access Gap in California

    April 29, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Antioch, California

    A Californian "food rescue" nonprofit called White Pony Express is shifting their usual processes to alleviate food insecurity to accomodate the change that COVID-19 has brought to their distribution systems. The group is partnering with the Palabra de Dios Community Church to distribute boxes of fresh groceries to families who need it. The work is run by volunteers—members of the community who want to pitch in during the crisis to help their neighbors.

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