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Food Hero Series: Brianna Almaguer Sandoval, NRDC Growing Green Urban Nutrition Visionary

Almaguer Sandoval, NRDC Growing Green award winner hopes to tackle childhood obesity through a nation-wide network of Healthy Corner Stores.

Food Hero Series: Larry Jacobs, NRDC Growing Green Organic Farming Pioneer

Food hero Larry Jacobs, a pioneer in the organic food movement, is an NRDC Growing Green winner of the Food Leader award.

IYFF: Using the Sun to Empower Women and Help Family Farmers

This IYFF post features three international campaigns working to use solar technology to help family farms.

Reducing Food Waste by Accepting “Wonky” Vegetables

Supermarkets are wasting huge amounts of food by refusing to sell aesthetically imperfect produce. How can we resolve this?

Food Hero Series: Meera Shekar, World Health Leader

Food Hero: Dr. Meera Shekar, Lead Health and Nutrition Specialist for the World Bank specializes in the interactions between food and health issues.

Food Hero Series: Tony Allan, Water Policy Innovator

How much water is in your food? More than you might think. Food Hero Tony Allan shows how food and water policy are connected.

Food Hero Series: Sara Scherr, Queen of EcoAgriculture

Dr. Scherr is an agricultural and natural resources economist who specializes inland and forest management policy in tropical countries. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Scherr served as Director of Ecosystem Services for Forest Trends. Dr. Scherr also served on the…

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