Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Creating a City for Health

Equity Eats connects Rochester students with fresh, healthy snacks—fighting hunger, supporting farmers, and advancing resilient local food systems.

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Agriculture

Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Formula Milk Marketing Reform, Lab-Grown Meat Bans, and U.K. Farm Funding Cuts

What’s changing in food and health this week? A vaccine contract gets pulled, cultivated meat faces bans, and infant formula ads come under new scrutiny.

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Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: MAHA Report, Worker Heat Protections, and Droughts in Europe

Food Tank covers U.S. food aid cuts, European climate threats, PepsiCo’s revised targets, and a new push to protect workers from heat.

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Food Access

‘Hungrier, Poorer, And Sicker’: The Cost of the House Budget Bill

The Bill represents the largest cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history.

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Agriculture

New Legislation Protects Pesticide Manufacturers from Legal Complaints of Harm

Agrochemical companies like Bayer are lobbying for legal immunity against failure-to-warn lawsuits linking pesticides to adverse health effects.

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Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: SNAP Cuts, Soda Bans, and Avian Flu

A look at soda bans, school meal impacts, and what climate data says about our food future.

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Public Health

MAHA Commission Releases Report on Childhood Chronic Illness

A new report from Trump’s MAHA Commission says kids are sicker than ever—and blames UPFs, toxins, and too many meds. Critics say it’s missing key facts.

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Food Waste

Food Waste Policies in Three Countries: Are They Working?

Countries worldwide are taking different approaches to food waste reduction—some through enforcement, others with incentives. Here’s what’s working.

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Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Financing a Fairer Food System: Q&A with Ertharin Cousin

How can we mobilize capital to build more equitable, resilient, and sustainable food system and agriculture?

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Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Gene-Edited Livestock, Water Scarcity Solutions, and Ocean Deregulation

This week, we’re looking at deregulated fishing zones, drought solutions in Libya, and a stalled FDA response to food safety violations.

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Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Together, We Can Build Better Food and Agriculture Systems

Food is at the heart of our biggest challenges—and the most exciting, impactful solutions.

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Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: USDA Departures, Traditional African Food Systems, and El Niño

This week, we’re looking at USDA resignations, food security risks, and whether dairy is making a comeback.

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Urban Agriculture

This Black-led Food Collective Fights Food Apartheid with Education, Land Reclamation, and Storytelling

A new documentary tells the story of East Knoxville’s food apartheid problem and the community members fighting for change.

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Agriculture

An Investment in Food Systems Is an Investment in Health

Food is Medicine programs, when designed effectively, can improve eaters’ health, support farmers, and advance nutrition equity.

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Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Aid Cuts, COP30 Momentum, and Bailouts for Farmers

Explore this week’s top headlines on food policy, global aid, climate action, and more.

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Food Access

The First 100 Days: How Trump and Vance Have Changed Food, Agriculture, Health, and Climate

From funding cuts to tariffs, here’s how the Trump-Vance administration is reshaping food, health, and the environment—one decision at a time.

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Labor

These Farm Workers Are Calling for a Boycott—Until Their Union Is Recognized

Failure to recognize the union, unreasonable quotas, and mistreatment of employees are among the reasons farm workers are calling for a boycott.

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Policy and Organizing

The Fight for the Healthy Incentives Program in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Program, which provides extra money for food assistance recipients to purchase fresh produce from local farmers, faces budget cuts. Food justice advocates are fighting to keep the program afloat.

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