10-05-18 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! I can't think of anything witty or urgent to say up top this week but looking forward to seeing many of you at OFN in Chicago next week! Cheers! David News | Events & actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Farm Bill / Congress 10.4.18 UPI: Farm Bill Expiration Puts Dozens of Programs on Hold 10.4.18 Roll Call: Sen. Grassley Defends Taking Farm Bailout $ 10.3.18 New Food Economy: How Trump's FDA is Advancing Obama's Food Policies (ssshhhh) 10.3.18 Monroe News Star: Louisiana Ag Crisis: No Home for Soybeans 10.1.18 Forbes: Not Your Grandmother's Farm Bill (I must be old. I don't think my grandma had a Farm bill.) 9.30.18 Esquire: Devin Nunes's Family Farm is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret 9.24.18 Bloomberg Gov: Young Farmers, Healthy Food Programs to Suffer in Farm Bill Delay Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 10.4.18 New Food Economy: World's Largest Meatpacker Recalls 6.5 Million Pounds Of Beef Linked To Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella 10.3.18 AP: CDC Study Finds That 1 in 3 US Adults Eat Fast Food Daily 10.2.18 WashPost: DC Council Overturns Wage Hike for Bartenders and Servers 4 Months after Voters Approved It 10.2.18 NY Times: Beard Foundation Makes Changes to Diversify Awards 10.1.18 NY Times: Wendell Berry's Right Kind of Farming Inescapable ag choices: the farm's ecological health and the farmer's economic health. 9.30.18 Illinois News Network: USDA Says IL Over-Issued Food Stamps, May Face Fines 9.30.18 Nob Hill (SF) Gazette: The Food Warriors 9.27.18 Bloomberg: Farmers Will Hoard Beans to Ride Out Trade Ware, Bunge CEO Says 9.24.18 Yes! Magazine: Iowa Families Unite to Stop Hog Farm CAFOs From Polluting Their Community 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 grants to those researching 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).  Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Event Highlight 10.16.18 Durham, NC Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty Additional Events 10.3.18 (Webinar) Removing Structural Barriers for the Next Generation of Farmers: Land, Capital, Gender, and Race 10.9.18 (Webinar) BFRDP for Ranchers and Grazers, Part 2 10.10.18 Gastonia, NC Planning for Healthy Communities: The intersection of health and community planning 10.10.18 Falcon Heights, MN The NICK Summit 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 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 10.19 - 10.21.18 Durham, NC Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners National 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 NC Alliance for Health - Grassroots Coordinator; Deadline extended! New England Grassroots Environment Fund - Program Manager; Open until filled Research Research paper posted at JAFSCD: Toward A Community Impact Assessment For Food Policy Councils: Identifying Potential Impact Domains New Economics Foundation's Pamphlet on An Economy for the People, By the People 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