Strategic Food Systems for NH, New England & The World— April 21, 5:30-7 PM.
"Food hub networks ensure that food hubs cooperate to grow and accelerate local food procurement possibilities in their region. Just like food hubs perform a service that no one small or mid-sized farm could provide on its own, food hub networks aim to provide a level of organization and services to the participating hubs that benefit them all beyond their individual scope."
A long standing pattern of letting livestock producers off the hook continues, even as billions pour into the industry.
BY GEORGINA GUSTIN, PHIL MCKENNA for Inside Climate News.
By Anya Crittenton in GreenAmerica
Posted on January 20, 2023 in Advance Climate Policy, Blog
An information hub supporting locally led efforts to conserve and restore our nation’s lands, waters, and wildlife
Keep Food Safe is an organization that supports people who have been poisoned or made ill by food. From providers to transporters to stores to restaurants, people have a right to trust the food they eat and not to have their health jeopardized.
Model Measures and Template Language • April 2024
"The Wasted Food Scale prioritizes actions that prevent and divert wasted food from disposal. Tiers of the scale highlight different pathways for preventing or managing wasted food, arranged in order from most preferred on the top left to least preferred on the top right. Within a given tier, pathways are ranked equally."
Monday, May 8th, 2023
Are you composting your carrot tops? Tossing those potato skins? Landfilling lemon peels??
Hold your horseradish! Before discarding food scraps, try giving them a new life. We habitually throw out broccoli stalks, onion skins, and all kinds of “unwanted” produce biproducts, but these ingredients can be used to make delicious recipes all their own! Check out the resources below to become inspired by your scraps and reduce your food waste:
In PlantYou’s Scrappy Cooking section, chef Carleigh publishes recipes to turn your would-be food scraps into delicious snacks and ingredients. Follow PlantYou on Instagram as well for even more content, recipes, and “scrappy cooking” ideas!
Jenné Claiborne’s blog & cookbook Sweet Potato Soul is another amazing hub for plant-based cooking. But she also has some great tips for repurposing your food scraps in this Food Scrap Recipes video!
Shelby (@shelbizleee) and Kathryn (@going.zero.waste) are two more viral content creators who post loads of tips, tricks, and inspiration to help you in your sustainability journey. Check out this YouTube video from Shelby featuring both her own and Kathryn’s tips to repurpose food scraps for everything they’ve got!
by Michael Nork, April 21, 2023
DIRECTOR, UNH DIETETIC INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Brazil. Ministry of Health of Brazil. Secretariat of Health Care. Primary Health Care Department.
Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian population / Ministry of Health of Brazil, Secretariat of Health Care, Primary Health Care Department ; translated by Carlos Augusto Monteiro. – Brasília : Ministry of Health of Brazil, 2015. 150 p. : il
https://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/publicacoes/dietary_guidelines_brazilian_population.pdf
Howard, Philip (April 2022) Op Ed-Fake Meats Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
https://civileats.com/2022/04/07/op-ed-fake-meat-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis/
Howard, Philip (March2022). The Politics of Protein (Executive Summary) IPES Food (attached)
https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/ProteinExecSummary.pdf
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (2021)
Climate Change and Land. Chapter 5-Food Security https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (2022) AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2
Leiserowitz, A., Ballew, M., Rosenthal S., & Semaan, J. (2020). Climate change and the American diet. Yale University and Earth Day Network. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communicationhttps://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/climate-change-american-diet.pdf
Nebeker, Ryan (last updated 4/28/22) What the IPCC’s* Climate Report Tells Us about Reforming the Food System* (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
https://foodprint.org/blog/ipcc-climate-report/
Nargi, Lela (6/15/21) The Soil Microbiome and Gut Microbiome Connection. Foodprint
https://foodprint.org/blog/soil-microbiomes/
The FoodPrint of Farmed Seafood (Published: 10/14/20, Last updated: 10/19/20)Footprint in collaboration with Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA)
https://foodprint.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020_09_29_FP_Aquaculture_Report_FINAL-1.pdf
Save the Food-(A website link with various strategies to reduce food waste)
Sharma A, Bryant L, Lee E, O’Connor C (Feb 14, 2021) The Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture: Part 4. Natural Resources Defense Council https://www.nrdc.org/experts/arohi-sharma/regenerative-agriculture-part-4-benefits
Wilson N, Cleghorn C, Cobiac L, Mizdrak A and Nghiem N (Nov. 10, 2019) Achieving Healthy and Sustainable Diets: A Review of the Results of Recent Mathematical Optimization Studies Adv, Nutr.Adv (Suppl 4): S389–S403.Published online 2019 Nov 15. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmz037.
The Planet and Your Health from the Center for Science in the Public Interest: https://www.cspinet.org/page/planet-your-health
The One-Health Approach to Food (2021). Barilla Foundation https://www.barillacfn.com/m/publications/a-one-health-approach-to-food.pdf