09-20-19 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! Welcome to this week's edition. Nothing particular to share up top this, except maybe if you like getting the update and know people who might be interested, please share!  News | Events & actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Legislation, etc. 9.19.19 Successful Farming: New Coalition of Farmers and Ranchers Want Green New Deal and 9.18.19 Roll Call: Coalition of farmers and ranchers endorses Green New Deal 9.19.19 WashPost: Why President Trump gutting the USDA's research service is so dangerous 9.18.19 Atl Journal Const: Rep. Austin Scott make play for GOP Ag Cmte lead 9.16.19 NY Times: A Shadowy Industry Group (International Life Sciences Inst) Shapes Food Policy Around the World 9.17.19 KTTS Radio: Missouri corporate farm bill goes into effect 9.11.19 Ag Journal: Concern for small farms fits broader policy shift 9.7.19 USA Today: Diary Management, checkoff-funded nonprofit promoting dairy, pays leaders millions — while farmers funding it go out of business. EVP and former USDA Secretary Vilsack was paid $800,557 in 2017...  8.23.19 Chicago Tribune: Commentary: Farmers need a bill of rights Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 9.19.19 GreeBiz: A sustainable food and land use transition could net $4.5 trillion economic boost 9.19.19 Generocity: Reinvestment Fund's HFFI supports food access across the nation 9.17.19 KALW SF Public Radio: How Can The World Sustainably Feed Nearly 10B People By 2050 Without Raising Emissions? 9.17.19 NY Times: What's the Right Way to Reverse the Obesity Epidemic? Fat shaming makes things worse. So what helps? 9.16.19 The Guardian: $1M a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world report 9.16.19 EDF: Resilience on the river: How an Arizona farmer combines tribal traditions with modern practices 9.16.19 New Food Economy: A Louisiana spillway helps flood-proof New Orleans. It's killing Mississippi's local seafood industry 9.15.19 Forbes: Convenience meets community: Kroger rolls into neighborhoods with mobile grocery stores 9.10.19 EDF/NASDA Report: Innovative State-Led Financing Advances Agricultural Conservation Funding Opportunities National Farm to School Network compiled a list of Farm to School funding opportunities. Deadlines range from Sep 30 - Nov 8.   Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking applications for Building Evidence on Nutrition Supports for Low-income Families with Young Children. Deadline Sep 24 EPA invites communities to apply to the Local Foods, Local Places technical assistance program. Deadline Sep 30 Food and Farm Communications Fund launched their Capacity Mini-Grants program. Deadline Oct 9 USDA FSA Organic Certification Cost Share Program is accepting applications. Deadline Oct 31 NEW 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 Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Action! New proposed rule would affect 3 million people with SNAP benefits. Broad-based categorical eligibility is a provision that enables qualifying Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) households to automatically qualify for SNAP. The new USDA proposal attempts to limit states' ability to decide the eligibility criteria for TANF. Read more here or check this article out for state-level impact. Submit a comment to USDA here. 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.  Event highlight 9.26.19 (Webinar) Reclaiming Food Enterprises: Capital for Communities of Color Events 9.21.19 East Troy, WI FarmAid 2019 9.23 - 9.26.19 Green Bay, WI Food Sovereignty Summit 9.26.19 (Webinar) Reclaiming Food Enterprises: Capital for Communities of Color 9.26 - 9.29.19 Traverse City, MI Farms, Food, and Health Conference 10.2 - 10.5.19 Albany, GA New Communities 50th Anniversary 10.6 - 10.7.19 Charlotte, NC Carolina Meat Conference 10.7 - 10.9.19 Rosemont, IL 2019 National Direct Agricultural Marketing Summit  10.15.19 Charlotte, NC ReCONNECT to Economic Opportunity Forum 10.17 - 10.19.19 St. Paul, MN Women in Sustainable Ag Conference 10.17.19 New York, NY Building Racial Equity: Foundations 10.22 - 10.24.19 Red Wing, MN National Farm Viability Conference 10.23 - 10.24.19 Austin, TX Food Incubation Summit 10.28.19 Columbus, OH Ohio Food Policy Summit  11.1 - 11.3.19 Durham, NC Sustainable Agriculture 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 Mandela Partners - Entrepreneurship Development Coordinator Apply by Sep. 30th USDA's National Institute of Food & Agriculture - Social Science Specialist Apply by Sep. 24th NEW National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Conservation Policy Specialist and Policy Director W.K. Kellogg Foundation - Director of Systems Change Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Senior Program Officer.  Rural Advancement Foundation International - Project Coordinator, Farmers Market Incentive Program Center for Environmental Farming Systems - Interim Communications Manager and Small Farm Unit Manager Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship - Farm to School Supply Chain Development Program Manager Research and Resources  JAFSCD, Local Motivations, Regional Implications: Scaling from Local to Regional Food Systems in Northeastern North Carolina The Food and Land Use Coalition, Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use Development Opportunities The Claneil Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2020 Emerging Leaders Fund cohort. Nominate New England and Mid-Atlantic orgainzations by October 1. National Farm to School Network is accepting proposals for their 10th annual conference. Apply by October 4 That's All Folks! 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