03-06-20 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! Re: Coronavirus this piece is good and I'm proud of my alma mater's work: 3.4.20 Bloomberg: The Coronavirus Hunter Is Racing for Answers in a Locked-Down UNC SPH Lab. I enjoyed my first and the 120th NFU convention in Savannah earlier this week and hope to see lots of you at the NGFN conference in NOLA next week. Cheers! News | Events & Actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Legislation, etc. 03.05.20 IEG Policy: Lawmakers press USDA's Perdue on farm bill implementation, more 03.05.20 School Nutrition Assoc: Letter to Sec. Perdue on using SFSP to serve coronavirus-closed schools. (Sec. Perdue Speaking at SNA's DC conference Mar 8-10) 03.04.20: The Baton Rouge Advocate: 31K Louisianans could lose food stamps under new Trump rule. Related WAFB9 story here 03.03.20 Civil Eats: Inside the Rural Resistance to CAFOs 03.03.20 Progressive Farmer: NFU Looks to Improve Farmer Certainty in Uncertain Times 03.02.20 NFU Release: Larew Elected National Farmers Union President 03.02.20 NFU Release: Leah Douglas Honored for Excellence in Ag Communications 03.01.20 Progressive Farmer: Outgoing NFU President Sees Tighter Farm Spending After 2020 02.29.20 Makato Free Press: MN farmers demand action from policy makers Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 03.05.20 Bloomberg: Right to Repair - Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor 03.03.20 NC Health News: Eastern NC communities look to map their way out of hunger 03.03.20 Yes!: Dismantling Food Colonialism in the Hopi Nation (from 11.19 Civil Eats) 03.02.20 Civil Eats: In the Upper Midwest, Cracking the Code for Farmland Access 03.02.20 Cornell Daily Sun: Innovation and Creativity Abound at Cornell's Second Digital Ag Hackathon 03.02.20 Bloomberg: Food Grown Without Dirt (Hydroponics) Isn't Organic, Farmers Say in Suit 02.28.20 Civil Eats: Resistance Served 2020 Centers the Power of Black Women in Food 02.28.20 WWF: The Next CA: the mid-MS Delta River region can supplement fruit & veggie production, contributing to a more distributed, climate-resilient food system.  02.28.20 CNN Biz: Elon Musk's brother wants to transform farming 02.27.20 Civil Eats: Jennifer Taylor Educates and Advocates for Underserved Small Farms in Florida Funding Opportunities NSAC: Millions of dollars available for on-farm conservation. Deadline approaching soon! NSAC's RFA Funding roundup here Carolina Farm Credit Open $5k Corporate Mission Fund grant application. Deadline June 30. City of High Point, NC opening Round 2 of Food Security Fund grants NC Tobacco Trust Fund 2020 Grant Cycle Open. App deadline is March 6 USDA's Value-Added Producer Grant is accepting applications. Apply by March 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. Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Events 3.10-13.20 National Good Food Conference, New Orleans, LA  NEW 3.12-13.20 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee 3.22-28.20 34th Annual Small Farms Week hosted by Cooperative Extension at NC A&T, Greensboro, NC 3.24.20 SCCLF Health Food Business Workshop, Columbia, SC 3.29.20 South Carolina Black Farmers Conference, St. Helena Island, SC (article here) 3.31 - 4.1.20 No Kid Hungry's Rural Childhood Summit, Columbus, OH 3.30-31.20 NCAT's 1st Annual Soil Health Innovations Conference Bozman, MT 4.27-30: Croatan Forum, 2020. Durham, NC 5.27-28.20 Innovation Forum: The Future of Food. How business can react to consumer trends, whilst building sustainable, resilient agricultural supply chains, Minneapolis  6.4-6.20 CCMA's Rebuilding Food Sovereignty on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux Falls, SD NEW 6.4-6.20: 2020 Urban Food Systems Symposium Kansas City, Missouri. Early Bird Ends TODAY 6.7-8.20 Seventh National Rural Grocery Summit Manhattan, Kansas. 8.13-14.20 OCMs' 22nd Annual Food & Ag Conf. and Membership Meeting, Oklahoma City Actions Food Chain Workers Alliance: Oppose H.R. 5038 – The Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 National Farm To School Network is seeking feedback on USDA's proposed rule that changes to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP).  Union of Concerned Scientists: Tell the federal dietary committee to develop guidelines consistent with current science on sustainability.  Sign letter here Requested signon deadline is March 4. Find more events on our national events calendar. If you have events you'd like added, please email david.beck@self-help.org.    Back to top OF INTEREST Job Opportunities NEW NSAC Seeking Grassroots Director. Application Deadline April 3.  NEW Food Corps service member and team leader applications. Due March 13. NEW JAFSCD Seeks Volunteer Associate Editors and Program Managers to Support Authors of Color and Emerging Authors MSU Center for Regional Food Systems: Food Systems Specialist, application deadline March 11. Food Empowerment Project (Petaluma, CA): Executive Director The Center for Good Food Purchasing:  Program Analyst and part time Data and Research Intern Kalamazoo Valley Food Hub DC Greens has 2 positions open: Produce Plus Program Manager and Grants Specialist NC Alliance for Health: Comms and Fund Dev Director SAAFON: Executive Director Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future: Education Program Specialist, Sr Program Officer  RAFI (Rural Advancement Foundation International): Development Manager The Conservation Fund: Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) Coordinator Piedmont Triad Regional Food Council: Food Systems Coordinator Farm Aid: Office Manager, Keepseagle Project Manager, Farmer Services Network Manager Building Equity & Alignment for Impact: Development Director The Rural Coalition: Policy and Advocacy Coordinator Center for Science in the Public Interest: Senior Policy Associate  Research, Resources and Development Oppties  MSU Ctr for Regional Food Systems: An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System, Seventh Edition Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment: Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice  JAFSCD: Wind River Reservation Gardeners Grow Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty That's All Folks! 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