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  • Healthy Eating Is Key To Well Being. So Why Is Hospital Food Always So Bad?

    March 16, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    In an attempt to offer healthier meals and reduce stigma around hospital food, hospitals are reinventing their dining services by hiring professional chefs, nutritionists, and dieticians. At the UC Davis Medical Center, this type of approach has already shown success with a growth in consumers, including an influx of locals from the community even coming to eat at the hospital cafe.

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  • In Kenya, herders turn an invasive cactus into biofuel

    March 12, 2020 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Laikipia County

    The invasive prickly pear cactus is spreading over grazing lands in Kenya and is harming herders’ livestock. So a local environmental science graduate is testing a system to turn the cacti into biogas. While the system can be expensive to install, the gas can be used for cooking and fertilizer, which can free up time for pastoralists and reduce the amount of firewood used. The graduate is training eight women’ groups to use the system.

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  • Restoring Food Sovereignty on the Spirit Lake Reservation

    March 10, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, The Spirit Lake Reservation, North Dakota

    Native American communities combat pervasive food insecurity with novel approaches to their Food Distribution Program which is a part of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The Spirit Lake Reservation has applied this FDP to a grocery store as part of a triple-pronged approach that seeks to give recipients more agency over their food system through physical grocery stores, gardening programs, and cooking lessons using cultural ingredients.

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  • After #MeToo, This Group Has Nearly Erased Sexual Harassment in Farm Fields

    March 09, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The Fair Food Program, which educates and empowers farmworkers to report on-the-job sexual harassment, has all but eliminated sexual assaults at participating farms in an industry that otherwise is known for vast power imbalances between migrant labor and labor contractors. By giving employers key business incentives to participate and by cracking the code of silence among workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers-run FFP has protected employees by educating tens of thousands of them while enforcing standards through a rigorous investigation and hearings process.

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  • Baker who recycles bread expands waste-busting range

    March 09, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

    At Gail’s, a UK bakery chain, its new “Waste Not” line of food repurposes day-old food into new menu items, reducing waste in the process. By reusing resources, as part of the circular economy model, Gail’s minimizes waste while also making new bread, sandwiches, and even beer.

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  • How women in Iowa are leading farmland conservation efforts

    March 07, 2020 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    A group of women called The Women, Food and Agriculture Network was founded in 1998 in Iowa to educate female landowners about land conservation and implementing sustainable practices on their farms. The group has held more than 250 meetings since 2009, reaching more than 3,800 women landowners—and their surveys find that after a one-day session, 50-70% of the women go on to take an action to improve conservation on their property. Longterm, this group empowers women to play a bigger role in the future of agriculture in the state.

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  • Alaskan Roulette

    February 25, 2020 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Old Harbor, Alaska

    An initiative called the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research is the state’s first coordinated testing effort to ensure that harvesters are not selling shellfish that contain paralytic shellfish poisoning. The program keeps track of data from 42 beaches in southern Alaska. However, the program only covers a small part of the active fishing sites in the state, so data is limited. But since the testing program was set up, no one at those sites have become sick.

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  • Against the grain: why millet is making a comeback in rural India

    February 25, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Kohima, Nagaland

    By reviving millet farming, farming communities are adapting to climate change. In India, the Millet Farmers Group, organized by a women’s rights nonprofit, the North East Network (NEN), helps farmers cultivate millet, an ancient grain that is less water-intensive than white rice. NEN Nagaland helps farmers from around the Nagaland district share knowledge about growing millet and obtain the necessary machinery to dehusk the grain.

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  • The 'water literacy' lessons cities can learn from Cape Town

    February 24, 2020 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    Facing a drought in 2017, Cape Town, South Africa pursued a number of city planning and public engagement efforts to reverse course. From publishing water use dashboards to creating a more flexible water planning strategy, the city rebounded. Could this multi-pronged model work in other places facing a changing climate?

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  • Montana's Grand Prairie Experiment

    February 21, 2020 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Malta, Montana

    According to the WWF, 69 percent of the Northern Great Plains remains untilled, providing great opportunity for making sure that land remains untouched. Two conservation organizations, the Nature Conservancy and the American Prairie Reserve, are butting heads as they both try to preserve the land, albeit via different means. Although they both face opposition for their methods, this article lays out exactly how both have already managed to make great strides in conserving the land and increasing biodiversity.

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