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  • Tribes Create Their Own Food Laws to Stop USDA From Killing Native Food Economies

    Tristan Ahtone

    May 24, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, United States, Arizona

    Tribal systems are preserving their culture by teaming up with advocates and lawyers to write tribal food codes. Food codes are federal laws that govern food processing, and are supposed to protect consumers. However, some food codes ignore tribal customs. By writing their own food codes tribes can protect their customs. “It’s one thing to say that we have to develop food and process food in certain ways, but it’s another thing to recognize that tribes have their own versions of food safety.”

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  • Correctional farm saves money, redirects lives

    Anne Hillman

    April 15, 2016 |

    Alaska Public Media |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wasilla, Alaska

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm has 35 inmates who work to produce food for the local food banks and the prison. The inmates who work there learn key practical skills, which have the potential to transform them and reduce recidivism.

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  • At this Paris restaurant, 'freegans' fight waste by cooking up food diverted from the dumpster

    Adeline Sire

    April 08, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris

    Researchers figure that roughly a third of all the food we produce is never eaten. In Paris, a new restaurant is taking a small slice out of all that waste by salvaging discarded food from a local market, cooking it up into fine cuisine, and serving it on a "pay-what-you-can" basis to a clientele that includes some of the city's neediest residents.

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  • Tree Regeneration Restoring Hope

    Charles Karis

    March 25, 2016 |

    Inter Press Service News Agency |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nakuru

    Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a technique in which farmers protect and prune tree stumps with the goal of the trees contributing to more fertile soil. In Kenya, FMNR has helped farmers survive drought conditions, increase their harvests, and improve food security. The training program of this technique has supported 160,000 farmers in East Africa.

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  • The Farm that Grows Climate Solutions

    Eric Toensmeier

    March 09, 2016 |

    Ensia |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, Las Cañadas, Veracruz

    A small agricultural co-op in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, has effectively implemented its own approach to climate change. The community adapts the main sector of its economy and livelihood-- farming-- to sustainable practices. "Las Cañadas" has increased the food security and health of the local community while simultaneously decreasing deforestation, soil degradation and carbon emissions.

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  • Kenyans Reacquire an Old Taste: Eating Healthier

    Rachel Cernansky

    February 23, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    In colonial times, diets and agricultural work in Kenya focused on corn and rice, alongside produce grown elsewhere. Health-consciousness is now restoring nutritious local fruits and vegetables to Kenyan tables, in part by teaching horticulture students in university.

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  • Meet India's female 'seed guardians' pioneering organic farming

    Bijal Vachharajani

    February 18, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Odisha

    Over the last two years, six seedbanks have been established in five villages in Odisha, India, with 72 men and women conserving 50 varieties of fibre and food crops seeds. This is a much needed shot in the arm for these districts which are plagued with hunger, poverty and insecurity.

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  • Group Hopes To Change Fresno's Food Economy

    Ali Budner

    February 16, 2016 |

    Valley Public Radio |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Fresno County is one of the top agricultural producers in the world, yet it contains twelve food deserts, making access to fresh produce for residents difficult. Food Commons Fresno is attempting to solve that problem through their Community Supported Agriculture brand, Out Of Our Own Backyard (OOOOBY).

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  • How Schools in Brazil Are Teaching Kids to Eat Their Vegetables

    Rhitu Chatterjee

    February 12, 2016 |

    Pulitzer Center |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo City

    Childhood obesity is on the rise in Brazil and kids tend to reject vegetables. But thousands of school gardens around the country are changing children's eating habits by helping to build a connection to fresh food.

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  • Brazil's school lunch program is putting food on the table for the country's small farmers

    Rhitu Chatterjee

    February 10, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil, Promissão

    Brazil's small farmers can now directly supply the country's school meals programs. It's been a big boost for local farmers, and it's helping the schools too.

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