Join nutrition education policy experts for a lively discussion on the who, what, when, where, and why of building relationships with your Members of Congress.
Center for a Livable Future's overview of program areas and highlighted projects, followed by policy recommendations on key food systems issues for the Trump administration and the 115th Congress.
Authors: National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coaltion's Farmers' Guide to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) outlines "must-know" information for farmers applying to the (CSP).
Authors: Amanda Essex, Douglas Shinkle and Mindy Bridges
This report examines state legislation in all 50 states enacted between 2012 and 2014 that aimed to strengthen various components of local food systems.
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future welcomes the National Conference of State Legislatures to present highlights from their report Harvesting Healthier Options: State Legislative Trends in Local Foods, 2012-2014. Participants will also hear about the passage of the Massachusetts Food Trust Program in 2014.
The GW Sustainability Collaborative’s annual symposium brings together policy makers, academics and practitioners to identify current scientific findings and future research questions in the field of sustainability. This year’s conference will focus on the role of urban agriculture in the forthcoming 2018 Farm Bill. Free!
This first of its kind study compares EU and U.S. regulations aimed at the meat industry, including labor, the environment, animal welfare and public health. It is done with the hope that it helps policymakers and citizens concretize the impacts of TTIP’s (de) regulatory agenda on an industry that requires drastic reform—an industry that is dramatically disconnected from citizen and consumer concerns about how meat is produced, who produces it and the long term negative impacts of this extractive model.
