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The Oakland Food Policy Council created the following list for food policy councils to organize and plan meaningful
Food policy councils across the nation are making recommendations and changes to positively impact the food system. This section provides specific examples of what FPCs can do - from updating zoning laws to establishing food literacy campaigns.
Suggestions and examples on how to fund a food policy council.
Read up on lessons learned and guides to cut through the red tape for local food policy change. Search reports or listen in to a webinar or podcast to get your gears turning.
Food policy councils are emerging as a resource that brings together food activists, community members, urban planners, and local, municipal and state governments as partners in creating local food initiatives.
The holidays are a time for giving and giving back! At WhyHunger, we are always on the lookout for gifts with meaning and wanted to share some of our staff’s favorite finds this season. 1. Support the rights of farmworkers and go behind scenes of today’s agricultural system with "Food Chains,” a new documentary about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
By Alison Cohen, WhyHunger’s Senior Director of Programs. “Their courage [those whose rights were most egregiously violated] came not from faith in UN documents but from something experienced deep within themselves: the rights and dignity inherent in their very being and in the being of all. This is the real source of the power of human rights.” Larry Cox, co-director
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alethea_marie/5666070729
The Oakland Food Policy Council created the following list for food policy councils to organize and plan meaningful
Food policy councils across the nation are making recommendations and changes to positively impact the food system. This section provides specific examples of what FPCs can do - from updating zoning laws to establishing food literacy campaigns.
Suggestions and examples on how to fund a food policy council.
Read up on lessons learned and guides to cut through the red tape for local food policy change. Search reports or listen in to a webinar or podcast to get your gears turning.
Food policy councils are emerging as a resource that brings together food activists, community members, urban planners, and local, municipal and state governments as partners in creating local food initiatives.
The holidays are a time for giving and giving back! At WhyHunger, we are always on the lookout for gifts with meaning and wanted to share some of our staff’s favorite finds this season. 1. Support the rights of farmworkers and go behind scenes of today’s agricultural system with "Food Chains,” a new documentary about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
By Alison Cohen, WhyHunger’s Senior Director of Programs. “Their courage [those whose rights were most egregiously violated] came not from faith in UN documents but from something experienced deep within themselves: the rights and dignity inherent in their very being and in the being of all. This is the real source of the power of human rights.” Larry Cox, co-director