11-22-19 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! Thanksgiving's next week and NFU's 11.19.19 release notes that farmers get only 12 cents of Thanksgiving food dollars. So... Go Forth and Buy from Your Local Farmer :).  We're off next Friday. Hope everyone has a healthy, hearty and happy holiday! News | Events & actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Legislation, etc. 11.21.19 WILX TV: MI Lt. Gov. Gilchrist signs bill making Michigan 5th cage-free egg state 11.20.19 Politico Morning Ag: Farm credit chief sees shadow of 1980s farm crisis. (links to written testimony and hearing video here) 11.20.19 NFU: Comment letter to FDA on "A New Era of Smarter Food Safety." 11.19.19 NSAC Blog: USDA Awards $41mm in GusNIP Healthy Food Access Projects 11.18.19 John Locke Foundation: Food Freedom: Barriers to the Fork. (Too libertarian for me personally but the Civitas poll finding strong conservative support for local food is noteworthy.) 11.17.19 Reuters: Trump hails 'cash' to farmers, U.S. aid in China trade war 11.17.19 AP: United Farm Workers endorses Kamala Harris  11.16.19 MN Star Tribune: Go big or get out? Some in farming say the opposite is the future 11.15.19 Modern Farmer: Farm Bankruptcies up 24% over last year 11.14.19 Des Moines Register: ISU report: Iowa farm finances continue to erode, with 44% of growers struggling to cover costs Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 11.22.19 NY Times: A Wet Year Causes Farm Woes Far Beyond the Floodplains 11.22.19 CDC Release: MMWR Report Finds Childhood Obesity Drop in WIC enrollees 11.20.19 Fast Company: Can food banks put an end to hunger if their biggest donors are the cause of the hunger? 11.19.19 Abasto: Kroger and Infarm to Offer In-Store Produce Farms 11.18.19 The New Yorker: Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? 11.18.19 Johns Hopkins: Nation's leading public health organization urges halt to all new and expanding CAFOs 11.17.19 Raw Story: Furious Texas rancher says Trump is 'secretly' trying to steal land to build 'the wall' 11.15.19 Ag Daily: Nestlé Purina announces new commitment to sustainability 11.15.19 NY Times: Nestlé Says It Can Be Virtuous and Profitable.The world's largest food co. trying to show it can do both. Activists are skeptical. 11.15.19 MN Star Tribune: Sugar beet harvest is the worst in decades in parts of Minnesota, North Dakota 11.11.19 The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Surviving the new American farm crisis Funding Opportunities 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 Food & Farm Communications Fund is accepting letters of interest for their Core Grant Programs. Deadline Dec. 9 USDA's Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement is accepting applications for guaranteed loan programs and grants - various deadlines. The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the Food System Vision Prize to seed the revisioning of a global food system. Early deadline Dec 5th; Applications close Jan 31. Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Action! The Wallace Center is working with the Iowa State Food Systems team to better understand the "core competencies" of food system practitioners as well as the  education or professional development opportunities available to them. Take this survey to share your knowledge and help them catalog existing resources.  Event highlight 12.11 - 12.12.19 Council of Development Finance Agencies, Intro to Food System Finance Webcourse Events 11.20 - 11.24.19 Lake George, NY Biodynamic Conference: Cultivating Relationships  11.20.19 Boston, MA Conversations about Food: Food Tank Live in Boston Speaker Series 11.29.19 Proposal Deadline: Submit a proposal for June 2020 Native CDFI Capital Access Convening  12.2.19 (Webinar) Remodeling Tradition: Creative Approaches to Urban Food Retail 12.3.19 (Funder Webinar) Raising the Profile of Food and Farming Systems in National Elections  12.3.19 (Webinar) Building Partnerships to Support Food Sovereignty in African American Communities  12.5 - 12.6.19 Rocky Mount, NC Food Council Gathering: Cultivating Community Through Food 12.8 - 12.11.19 Opelika, AL The Professional Agricultural Workers Conference 12.9.19 (Webinar) Habits of White Supremacy in Organizational Culture 12.9 - 12.11.19 Savannah, GA Community Food Systems Conference 12.13 - 12.15.19 Birmingham, AL Rooted in Community Winter Leadership Institute  1.22 - 1.25.19 Little Rock, AR Southern SAWG Annual 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 NEW Grow Food Northampton: Executive Director Deadline. Nov 25 Piedmont Triad Regional Food Council: Food Systems Coordinator NSAC: Conservation Policy Specialist and Policy Director NEW Farm Aid: 3 positions -  Office Manager, Keepseagle Project Manager, Farmer Services Network Manager Building Equity & Alignment for Impact: Development Director The Rural Coalition: Policy and Advocacy Coordinator NEW Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future: Education Program Specialist,  Senior Program Officer  Center for Science in the Public Interest: Senior Policy Associate  Research and Resources  JAFSCD, Enhancing Food Sovereignty: A five-year collaborative tribal-university research and extension project in California and Oregon Development Opportunities Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is accepting applications for the Bloomberg Fellows. Apply by Dec 1 The Wallace Center's Community Food Systems Mentorship Program is accepting applications for their next cohort. Check out more information and apply by Dec 29 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