02-21-20 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! Here's something fun: 2.20.20 New America: The Socialist Roots of the Bagel. Mozel Tov?! Also compelling, this 2.18.20 WaPo article on the impact of Mass's Community Servings, which delivers meals tailored to individual patients' medical needs. Seems like the world needs more groups like Community Servings! News | Events & Actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Legislation, etc. 02.20.20 Federal Farm Credit Banks Release: Farm Credit System Reports Net Income of $5.4 Billion for 2019 02.20.20 NET (NE PBS & NPR): USDA Announces Sustainable Ag Goals, Nebraska Experts Say 'We'll See' 02.20.20 CAP Report: Rural Communities Have Experienced Net-Zero New Business Growth Since the Great Recession 02.18.20 Des Moines Register Op-Ed: Iowans want action to limit CAFOs and their harmful effects 02.18.20 JHU Center for a Livable Future: Support for Iowa Moratorium on Hog Confinement Operations 02.18.20 The Nation: A predatory and extractive financial sector has hollowed out rural communities across the US Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 02.20.20 Space Daily (?): Sweden creates $1 mm prizes for sustainable food solutions 02.20.20 The Guardian: JBS says it can't trace the stock origins as concerns grow on deforestation linked to beef industry 02.19.20 Block Club Chicago: Chicago Food Policy Summit Brings Food Access Experts Together In South Shore 02.18.20 NY Times: The Struggle to Mend America's Rural Roads. Meet the Wisconsin farmers paying the price. 02.18.20 Civil Eats: Plant-Based Diets and Regenerative Ag Have Sparked a Pea and Lentil Renaissance 02.16.20 LA Times: Inside one Iowa family's anguish amid a rise in farmer suicides 02.16.20 Wash Post: The right diet for patients can improve outcomes and reduce costs. 02.16.20 The Guardian: Why are millions of children in the UK not getting enough to eat? 02.16.20 Daily Tar Heel: Climate change presents new challenges, long-term threats for N.C. farmers 02.14.20 WashPost: Unilever will stop marketing to kids in an effort to curb childhood obesity 02.11.20 YES! Weekly: Historic Greensboro Farmers Curb Market gets a revamp. Active since 1874! Funding Opportunities 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 NIFA's 2020 Organic Ag Research grant applications open. NSAC notes OREI app deadlines Jan 30, ORG deadline Feb 27. NSAC Blog: $37mm available via USDA's Value-Added Producer Grant (VPAG) for value-added and local food projects. Deadline is March 5. The Conservation Fund's Resourceful Communities CNEF small-grant program application is open. Feb 14 deadline 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 2.27.20 Farmer Foodshare 2020 Speaker Series: Food Policy in Action featuring Root Causes! 6.30 PM Durham, NC 3.1-3.3.20 NFU 118th Convention, Savannah, GA 3.3.20 Politico Event: The Food System of the Future Tuesday, March 3, Chicago 8:00 AM CST 3.10 - 3.13.20  National Good Food Conference, New Orleans, LA  3.22-03.28.20: 34th Annual Small Farms Week hosted by Cooperative Extension at NC A&T, Greensboro, NC 3.29.20 South Carolina Black Farmers Conference, St. Helena Island, SC 3.31 - 4.1.20 No Kid Hungry's Rural Childhood Summit, Columbus, OH 3.30 - 3.31.20 NCAT's 1st Annual Soil Health Innovations Conference Bozman, MT NEW! 4.27-30: Croatan Forum, 2020. Durham, NC 6.4 - 6.6.20 CCMA's Rebuilding Food Sovereignty on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux Falls, SD Actions Union of Concerned Scientists: Tell the federal dietary committee to develop guidelines consistent with current science on sustainability. 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 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 Self-Help: Food System Policy Program Associate 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! 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 © 2020 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