10-12-18 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! Great to see many of you at OFN Conference in Chicago. We also had a productive CDFI-Farm Credit round table and plan to keep working to find more funding solutions for food system enterprises.  Not a lot new on the Farm Bill but there's a 10 am Monday press conference on "Food And Farm Advocates Tell Congress: No Farm Bill Is Better Than A Bad Farm Bill." The video cast starts 10 am Monday on the EWG Facebook page. There are lots of good food & ag pieces below. Cheers!  News | Events & actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Farm Bill / Congress 10.9.18 Politico: Farm Bill on the Campaign Trail Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 10.11.18 Fence Post: Kathleen Merrigan Says Food Action Now Outside DC 10.10.18 Guardian: Huge Reduction in Meat Consumption Needed to Address Climate Change 10.10.18 Wash Post: Earth's Population is Skyrocketing. How Do You Feed 10 Billion People Sustainably? 10.10.18 Forbes: We Are What We Eat: How The Industrial Food System Is Harming Us 10.8.18 New Food Economy: How an algorithm kicks small businesses out of the food stamps program on dubious fraud charges 10.8.18 Env Leader: Walmart Cuts Emissions, Reduces Food Waste in Canada Opps with Sustainable Food Delivery 10.5.18 LA Times: Dollar General's "Lifeline" to Rural Communities not Always Welcome 10.5.18 Farm Aid Activates Family Farm Disaster Fund in Response to Impact from Hurricane Florence 10.5.18 OxFam: On the road to ending human suffering behind the food on our supermarket shelves 10.4.18 Civil Eats: "Dirt to Soil", New Book on The Trouble With Farm Subsidies NY Times Documentary short: Holding On to the Farm 9.26.18 Civil Eats: Birmingham (AL) Food Deserts Shaped by Its Redlining Past 9.15.18 Fed Reserve Podcast: Access to Local Food Systems as a Rural Economic Driver 8.15.18 Civil Eats: Renewing a Vision for Rural Prosperity Wendell Berry's daughter Mary & food policy advocate Debbie Barker show how the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-operative offers a model for rebuilding farmers' livelihoods—and rural communities. Funding Opportunities EPA Smart Growth Local Foods, Local Places applications open. Deadline Oct. 22 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announces application for the $25k Culture Of Health Prize. Deadline Nov. 1 Annie's Grants for Gardens is accepting applications for funds to fund edible garden projects. Deadline Nov. 11 Good Food Institute is awarding $3 million in research grants on open-source plant-based and clean meat options. Deadline Nov 21. USDA Farm to School announced two request for proposals: Farm to School Grant RFA (Deadline Dec 4) and Farm to School Training & Curricula RFP. Deadline Nov. 26.  Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America has opened their grant program application; priority for Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin territory. Deadline Nov. 30 Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Event Highlight 10.19 - 10.21.18 Durham, NC Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners National Conference Additional Events 10.12 - 10.15.18 Bellingham, WA U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance IV National Assembly 10.12.18 Deadline to apply for the Fair Food Business Boot Camp 10.13.18 Durham, NC Durham Bowls 10.14.18 Wilmington, NC Feast Down East Benefit Dinner 10.15.18 Pittsboro, NC The Business of Agriculture Series 10.16.18 Durham, NC Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty 10.16.18 Germantown, MD Mid-Atlantic Care Farming Summit 10.17 - 10.18.18 Charlottesville, VA Our Evolving Food System: From Slavery to Sovereignty  10.17.18 Winchester, MA Food Heals Our Communities Find more events on our national events calendar. If you have events you'd like added, please email Hannah.quigley@self-help.org.  Back to top OF INTEREST Job Opportunities National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Policy Specialist NC State Extension - statewide Local Food Program Manager; open until filled NC Alliance for Health - Grassroots Coordinator; Deadline extended! New England Grassroots Environment Fund - Program Manager; Open until filled Research Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Complicated Connection Between Supermarkets and Obesity Interested in a free, keyword-searchable online database for research articles relating to nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community development, food policy, etc.? Complete the 5 minute survey to provide feedback Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development and the Journal of American Indian Education released a call for papers, Indigenous Food Sovereignty in North America. Deadline Jan. 15 And...  USDA and US Department of Health and Human Services announced a call for nominations to the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Submit nominations by Oct. 6.  That's All Folks! David Beck, Policy & Media Director Self-Help Credit Union & affiliates 301 W Main St Durham NC 27701 david.beck@self-help.org, 919-956-4495 Forward this email to a friend Copyright © 2018 Self-Help, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Self-Help 301 W Main St Durham, NC 27701 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list