11-30-18 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

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Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving filled with good, nutritious and relatively healthy food. Sounds like a Farm Bill deal is coming (like winter?) that includes Senate SNAP provisions. Also highlighting 10.30.18 The Guardian: 'It's not fair, not right': How America Treats its Black Farmers about Louisiana sugarcane farming. Thanks to Quinton Robinson for sharing it.

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NEWS

Farm Bill / Congress

11.29 Politico: Farm Bill Deal Blocks Major GOP Food-Stamp Overhaul
11.29.18 WashPost: Farm-bill Deal Scraps New SNAP Work Requirements
11.27.18 Yahoo News: Farm Bankruptcies Surge as Trump's Trade War Drags On
11.27.18 Roll Call: Forest Fires Add Snag to Getting Farm Bill Passed
11.27.18 Baltimore Sun: Proposed Changes To House Farm Bill Could Worsen The Hunger Problem
11.27.18 New Food Economy: Trump USDA Civil Rights Pick Naomi Earp has History of Discriminating Against Black Employees
11.24.18 The Hill: Farm Bill Presents Opportunity To Improve Snap Program
11.20.18 NPR: How Midterms and Lame-Duck Are Pushing a Farm Bill Deal
11.16.18 National Review: Congress Finds Bipartisanship in Farm Welfare

Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News

11.29.18 EDF: How Farmers' Biz Partners Benefit from Conservation. Learn more on Monday Dec 3 webinar.
11.28.18 The Business Journal: USDA Threatens Action on Cargill's CA Slaughter Operation
11.27.18 WashPost: Smithfield and Dominion Launch Plan to Capture Methane from Hog Manure Lagoons
11.26.18 Tampa Bay Times: New FL Gov Ron DeSantis, Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried no friends of Big Sugar
11.26.18 WashPost: Chef Jose Andres Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
11.26.18 MN StarTribune: Farm Bankruptcies Are On The Rise, And Bankers Worry That Far More Are On The Way
11.24.18 Las Vegas Sun Editorial: Nevada Can Do More to Fight Obesity Epidemic
11.20.18 Wash Post: During California Wildfires, Farmworkers Felt Pressure To Keep Working Or Lose Their Jobs
11.19.18 NYU Media Release: Growing Number of State Laws Limit Local Govt Control over Food and Nutrition

Funding Opportunities

Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America has opened their grant program application; priority for Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin territory. Deadline Nov. 30
FoodShot Global is awarding up to $10 million in equity, up to $20 million in debt, and $525,000 in prize funding for innovations in soil health. Deadline is December 1.
Community Food Strategies's micro-grant program for NC food councils/networks. Deadline Dec. 17
RAFI-USA 2019 Agricultural Reinvestment Fund grant program. Deadline Jan. 4
HFFI Grant Program. $1.8 million available to support eligible fresh food retail in underserved areas. Register for 12.13.18 and 1.8.19 webinars here. Application deadline is 2.14.19.
NEW Natural Capital Investment Fund has launched RESEED Recovery Fund for farmers and value-added producers affected by hurricanes Florence or Matthew.

EVENTS & ACTIONS

Action!

The Food Research and Action Center and the Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign are submitting comments about how the Department of Homeland Security's proposed "public charge" rule would increase rates of hunger and food insecurity among immigrant families. Read how to get involved here.

Event Highlight

01.22 - 01.25.19 Austin, TX Financial Management Boot Camp for Food Hub operators - apply now!

Additional Events

12.3.18 Morehead City, NC Innovations in Economic Development through Local Foods
12.3.18 (Webinar) Farm Finance and Conservation
12.4.18 (Webinar) Agricultural Food Policy in New Hampshire
12.4.18 (Webinar) The Centrality of Land in a Just Transition
12.4 - 12.5.18 Weyers Cave, VA Virginia Farm to Table Conference
12.4 - 12.6.18 Acton, MA Fair Food Business Boot Camp
12.5.18 Application Due Tools for Collective Self-Governance: A Nonprofit Democracy Network Gathering
12.6.18 Leominster, MA Farm & Sea to School Conference
12.7.18 Manteo, NC Innovations in Economic Development through Local Foods
12.7 - 12.8.18 Worcester, MA RootSkills Conference
12.13.18 (Webinar) Building Racial Equity Within Cooperative Extension

Find more events on our national events calendar. If you have events you'd like added, please email Hannah.quigley@self-help.org.

OF INTEREST

Job Opportunities

Ecotrust - Director of Food Equity; Deadline Dec. 3
NEW Center for Good Food Purchasing - Program Analyst; Deadline Dec. 7
NEW Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group - Executive Director; Deadline Dec. 31
American Heart Association Voices for Healthy Kids - Policy Research Manager; Open
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Policy Specialist
NC State Extension - statewide Local Food Program Manager; open until filled
New England Grassroots Environment Fund - Program Manager; open until filled

Research

American Journal of Preventive Medicine: State Preemption of Food and Nutrition Policies and Litigation: Undermining Government's Role in Public Health
Journal of Ag, Food Systems and Community Development: Navigating Borders: The Evolution of the Cass Clay Food Partners
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

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