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  • From a Prison Garden Sprouts Real Growth

    July 27, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Lettuce Grow teaches gardening skills to 200 incarcerated people per year in 16 Oregon prisons and juvenile detention centers. The teaching includes college-level courses and hands-on gardening on prison grounds, which then yields hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables for prison kitchens. Graduates of the program commit many fewer crimes than the average ex-prisoner and have found work after prison at nurseries and in other horticultural pursuits.

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  • Ohio cities fight hunger and food waste with a smartphone app

    July 19, 2021 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Want to help fight food insecurity? There’s an app for that. Food Rescue Hero helps connect extra food with those who need it. Volunteers use the app to see if any food is available and when it is, they pickup and deliver the donation to a pre-approved recipient, all through the app.

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  • Farm-to-table took off during the pandemic. Is it here to stay?

    July 14, 2021 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    As the COVID-19 pandemic hit and grocery store shelves became bare, many consumers sought to purchase meat directly from farmers. The Shop Kansas Farms group on Facebook has more than 148,000 members with about 800 producers who are selling their goods. While there needs to be more education for farmers on how to sell their livestock and for consumers on the intricacies of buying from processors, people in other states are creating their own groups to better connect consumers to vendors.

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  • Inside Nigeria's Home-grown School Feeding Programme

    July 05, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    A Nigerian initiative to mitigate childhood food insecurity is sourcing food from small farms to provide daily meals in public elementary schools. In addition to improving the health of children, the program hopes to improve school enrollment and create jobs.

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  • Food insecurity linked to gun violence. In St. Louis, Black farmers work on a solution

    June 27, 2021 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Black, urban farmers have formed a grassroots "ecosystem" to grow and distribute fresh, affordable produce in St. Louis neighborhoods where food insecurity and gun violence go hand in hand. Heru Urban Farming is a startup businesses and CSA growing vegetables in vacant lots that it then sells by subscription and gives away to families in need. Along with a new farmers market and a mobile produce vendor, the "food justice" activists and entrepreneurs are meeting a nutritional need where quality supermarkets don't exist and corner stores typically sell packaged, processed foods.

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  • 'Take what you need—leave what you can' — Stark Co. woman sets up anonymous food pantries for those in need

    June 17, 2021 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Stark County, Ohio

    “Take what you need—leave what you can" is the motto etched on the 16 anonymous “Blessing Boxes” set up around Stark County. The wooden cabinets are stocked with non-perishable food, household items, and personal hygiene items. People can access the boxes whenever they need to and can take as much as they would like. The boxes are made and re-stocked several times a week by volunteers. One of the boxes sits outside a local elementary school, not only provided needed supplies to students and their families, but students have also taken responsibility for helping to keep it filled.

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  • New grocery store reflects Cornerstone church's belief that 'South Dallas deserves beautiful things'

    June 16, 2021 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The new Southpoint Community Market in Dallas is the product of seven years of planning in a process based on community input about the need for accessible, nutritious, affordable food and other everyday groceries. Anchoring what once was a run-down shopping center, the new grocery and coffee bar is supported by Cornerstone Community Enterprises, a nearby church's philanthropic arm, and the Real Estate Council Foundation, which will cover the store's financial losses until it is self-sustaining. The store is part of a larger effort to provide for a healthier neighborhood.

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  • Philly Families Are Taking Charge of Their Own Food Security

    June 15, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In 2014, the community organization Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha piloted a community-based Food Buying Club in Philadelphia. This initiative allowed local residents to buy food in bulk at wholesale prices. The goal was to strengthen food security and combat the lack of affordable and nutritious food in their neighborhood. Despite distributing over 62,000 pounds of fresh produce, the program shut down due to financial reasons. Now, after forming an advisory council and working on their business strategy with others in the community, the club is reopening and is looking to expand across the city.

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  • Federal program that helps farmers during the pandemic is changing the local food landscape

    June 13, 2021 |

    The Almanac |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Farmers to Family program, an initiative from the U.S Department of Agriculture set aside $3 billion for its Farmers to Families Food Box program, part of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. The program awarded contracts farmers and distributors to provide food for families experiencing food insecurity. The article lays out some of the challenges with the program like issues with how the contracts were awarded, difficulty coordinating between distributors and farmers, stringent requirements, as well as the quick, creative solutions that were deployed to overcome them.

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  • Co-ops are democratizing the food chain

    June 10, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The food-supply business is known for exploitative pay and poor working conditions. But Brooklyn Packers, a Black-owned cooperative launched in 2016, pays its owner-workers and vendors fair wages and is founded on traditions in the Black community of food sovereignty and mutual aid. Those values paid off at the start of the pandemic, when demand for fresh produce deliveries exploded. Brooklyn Packers retooled its business model to meet the demand, showing that a non-hierarchical business can move quickly.

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