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  • In Cambodia, 'Lucky' Iron Fish For The Cooking Pot Could Fight Anemia

    December 25, 2015 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Cambodia

    The World Bank estimates that iron deficiency is a $50 billion drain on global GDP. In Cambodia, one entrepreneur has marketed little blocks of metal that are dropped in cooking pots and slowly release iron, entering the cooked food.

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  • How America's Top Junk-Food City Went on a Diet (and Fattened Its Economy)

    December 17, 2015 |

    Politico |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    Reducing obesity relies not only on personal choices, but also systemic changes. In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the city’s anti-obesity campaign enrolls individuals and city planners in an inclusive effort to focus on wellness and change the built landscape. Going beyond education and outreach, the city’s plan also includes creating new spaces for riverside recreation, more sidewalks, and paths. Challenges remain, however, as the city navigates its cooperate relationships while trying to prioritize community health.

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  • Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here's Their Secret

    December 08, 2015 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    U.S. Hispanics who pass down a tradition of food, family, and healing are healthier. But as generations become more assimilated, many are adjusting to less healthy diets and habits.

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  • Fresh-made meals a learning experience at schools

    December 05, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Most public schools lunches are cheap, frozen meals, which satisfy federal nutrition standards but kids don't eat them so student performance suffers. A school in Boston partnered with a non-profit to test entrees that are cheap, healthy, and that the students like.

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  • As Schools Buy More Local Food, Kids Throw Less Food In The Trash

    October 20, 2015 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A national census of farm-to-school lunch programs said the kids ate more healthful meals and threw less food in the trash than kids not on the program. In D.C., by law, schools must incorporate some local food.

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  • More Schools Serving Locally Grown Food, USDA Says

    October 20, 2015 |

    Education Writers Association |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Students in public schools are eating healthier cafeteria meals made from an increasing array of locally sourced food, according to new federal data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nearly $600 million in locally produced food was purchased by schools in the 2013-14 academic year, a 55 percent increase over 2011-12. However, new studies on school nutrition have yielded mixed results about the impact of new federal regulations.

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  • Who Is Revolutionizing School Lunch?

    September 24, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The United States has rising childhood obesity and schools deal with kids who are picky. Through innovative school gardens and kid taste testing food, entrepreneurs across the nation are getting children to eat vegetables at school and love it.

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  • National round-up: The secret(s) to sustainable urban farms

    September 04, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Urban farms across the country are incorporating creative strategies to make farms sustainable. Farms in Cleveland are teaching refugees to engage in agriculture as a way to adapt to their new community, while one farm in Michigan provides mentorship to other farmers looking to be successful from a business perspective. In order to make fresh produce accessible year-round, these creative ideas are helping meet the needs of farmers and consumers.

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  • Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future

    August 10, 2015 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.

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  • FDA's ‘terrible policy error' blocks simple step to prevent fatal birth defects

    July 11, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Provo, Utah

    The life-saving vitamin folic acid is added to flour in the United States, but Hispanics tend to eat little flour. Adding folic acid to corn flour would reduce birth defects in Hispanic women in the U.S.

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