Featured New Book
- Agricultural Policy of the United States: Historic Foundations and 21st Century Issues This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation.
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This guide provides selected course-specific resources for MET ML721: US Food Policy and Culture
White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, September 2022
- White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, September 2022 Today, for the first time in more than half a century, President Biden is hosting the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to catalyze action for the millions of Americans struggling with food insecurity and diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. The Conference will lay out a transformational vision for ending hunger and reducing diet-related disease by 2030 – all while closing disparities among the communities that are impacted most.
Featured New Report on the U.S. Food System
- Reset the Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System (The Rockefeller Foundation) While Covid-19 and the resulting economic downturn made the negative consequences of the food system worse and more obvious, the pandemic did not create them and its end will not solve them. Covid-19 has, however, increased both the imperative and the opportunity to address these flaws and limitations once and for all. Now is the moment to transform the U.S. food system.
