11-01-19 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! Lots of news as per usual. Some highlights: Al Gore on food crisis and climate change, my Dad's alma mater Illinois' compiling the first comprehensive food supply chain map and this Taste Q&A with Toni Tipton-Martin on her work raising up founders of Black cooking and what they cooked. Enjoy!  News | Events & actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Legislation, etc. 11.1.19 NSAC Blog: Farm Advocates hope Senate Farm to School Month Resolution signals action on Child Nutrition Reauth 10.31.19 NSAC Blog: Senate Advances Ag Approps Bill. Related: 10.28.19 Successful Farming: Senate to vote on funding for 'Heirs Property' initiative 10.31.19 Am Farmland Trust Blog: The Climate Crisis is Real, and Our Only Hope is America's Working Lands 10.31.19 Axios: Nearly 40% of 2019 farm income will come from federal aid and insurance 10.31.19 Forbes: FDA, USDA And EPA Team Up With Food Waste Reduction Alliance. MOU found here 10.30.19 NFU Release: Bipartisan introduction of Farm Workforce Modernization Act, HR 4916, an Important Step Towards a Stable & Fair Ag Workforce 10.20.19 NY Times Op-ed by George Goehl: If Progressives Don't Try to Win Over Rural Areas, Guess Who Will 10.29.19 New Food Economy: New federal report shows dairy cooperatives struggling with power imbalances and competing interests Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 11.1.19 Politico Morning Ag: Why we don't know what to eat to stay healthy 10.31.19 CDFA: Food Systems & Investment Tools (fifth paper in a series seeking on food system development financing) 10.31.19 Axios: Today's health problems are tomorrow's health crises. US childhood obesity now at 18%, adults 40%.   10.31.19 The Guardian: Fishery collapse 'confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy' Common pesticides found to starve fish 'astoundingly fast' by killing aquatic insects 10.30.19 NY Times: Foie Gras, Served in 1,000 NYC Restaurants, Is Banned 10.28.19 Taste: Q&A with Toni Tipton-Martin, who rewrote the History of American Cooking by raising up forgotten founders of black cooking 10.28.19 Fast Company: U of Illinois compiles the first map of America's food supply chain. It's mind-boggling. 10.30.19 New Food Economy story here 10.27.19 EcoWatch/Modern Farmer: Food Activist Mark Winne's Journey Through Unlikely Food Towns 10.29.19 Wash Post: The trouble with chocolate A decade after Mars and other chocolate makers vowed to stop rampant deforestation, the problem has gotten worse 10.23.19 Wash Post: Chocolate companies sell 'certified cocoa.' But some of those farms use child labor, harm forests. 10.23.19 Food Navigator: Kellogg agrees to settle sugary cereal class action with $20m fund  10.23.19 NPR Illinois: Diversifying Crops Is Good For The Planet. But Can It Be Good For Farmers' Wallets? 10.22.19 Wash Post: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change Funding Opportunities National Farm to School Network compiled a list of Farm to School funding opportunities. Deadlines range from Sep 30 - Nov 8.   Michigan Good Food Fund announces Catalytic Investment Awards for five Michigan businesses. Deadline Nov 8 SeedMoney is offering their crowdfunding platform and small matching grants for food gardens. Deadline Nov 12 The Gates Foundation is accepting grant applications for their Voices for Economy Opportunity award. Deadline Nov 13 The Conservation Fund is seeking applicants for the Grant Program for Transporting Healthy Foods.Deadline Nov 27 United Fresh Start Foundation is accepting applications for the Community Innovation Grants Program. Deadline Dec 1. USDA's Regional Conservation Partnership Program is accepting applications. Deadline Dec. 3 USDA's Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement is accepting applications for guaranteed loan programs and grants - various deadlines. Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Action! Congress is currently considering the Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization (CNR), which provides opportunity to open new markets for local food in schools. Two bipartisan bills supporting farm to school work have been introduced for the inclusion in the CNR: The Farm to School Act of 2019 and the Kids Eat Local Act. Learn more about how to support this work from the supporting organizations, The National Farm to School Network and the National Sustainable Ag Coalition.  The HEAL Alliance is seeking support for the No Shame at School Act. Earlier this year Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5) and Sen.Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced legislation that would provide protections for students and their families with school lunch debt. The No Shame at School Act allows school districts to be retroactively reimbursed for unpaid lunch fees and bars collection agencies from seeking unpaid lunch fees. Sign onto the petition here if interested. Event highlight 12.5 - 12.6.19 Rocky Mount, NC Food Council Gathering: Cultivating Community Through Food Events 11.1 - 11.3.19 Durham, NC Carolina Farm Stewardship's Sustainable Agriculture Conference 11.6.19 (Webinar) Growing Taproots: Anchor Institutions and Community Development 11.4 - 11.6.19 Cleveland, OH Inclusive Economies 2019 11.6 - 11.8.19 St. Paul, MN Farmer Cooperative Conference 11.7 - 11.9.19 Jersey City, NJ NESAWG 26th Annual Conference 11.7.19 (Webinar) Kids Win and Farms Win: What do we know about the impacts of farm to school 11.8 - 11.13.19 Reisterstown, MD Farm-Based Education Conference 11.13.19 San Francisco, CA Transforming Community Development through Arts and Culture 11.14.19 (Webinar) Supporting Black Farmers in the South with Catalyst Finalist Jillian Hishaw 11.14.19 Oakland, CA Building Racial Equity: Foundations 11.20 - 11.24.19 Lake George, NY Biodynamic Conference: Cultivating Relationships  12.5 - 12.6.19 Rocky Mount, NC Food Council Gathering: Cultivating Community Through Food 12.9 - 12.11.19 Savannah, GA Community Food Systems Conference 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 Carolina Farm Stewardship Association - Policy Director. Apply by Nov 4 Farmer Foodshare -  Executive Director  Piedmont Triad Regional Food Council - Food Systems Coordinator National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Conservation Policy Specialist and Policy Director NEW Quivira Coalition - Program Coordinator Education and Outreach Programs Building Equity & Alignment for Impact - Development Director The Rural Coalition - Policy and Advocacy Coordinator Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Senior Program Officer.  Center for Science in the Public Interest - Senior Policy Associate and Policy Associate, SNAP Center for Environmental Farming Systems - Interim Communications Manager  Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship - Farm to School Supply Chain Development Program Manager Research and Resources  Council of Development Finance Agencies, Food Finance White Paper Series: Food Systems & Investment Tools JAFSCD, Can Transformative Learning Theory Help Decolonize Turtle Island Food Systems?  NAFSN Good Food Talks, Uprooting Racism in the Food System: Seeding Sovereignty for Black and Brown Farmers Development Opportunities Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is accepting applications for the Bloomberg Fellows. Apply by Dec 1 That's All Folks! David Beck Self-Help Policy Director 301 W Main St Durham NC 27701 david.beck@self-help.org, 919-956-4495 Forward this email to a friend Copyright © 2019 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