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• Culture, Cocaleros and Bolivian Politics

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Cross-posted on From the Ground — the blog of American Jewish World Service (AJWS). The upcoming election in Bolivia is stirring some interesting dynamics between an indigenous plant and a popular president. So, too, it is re-asserting the interconnectedness of politics, agriculture, indigenous culture and ...
  1 week ago

• fair food

  
  the irresistible fleet of bicycles — Authority: 139
  The California Institute for Rural Studies and Rick Nahmias Photography are pleased to announce the release of “Fair Food: Field to Table” a multimedia presentation promoting a more socially just food system in the US. Through the voices of agricultural workers, growers, businesses and fair food advocates, ...
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• Giving Thanks & Food Justice at the Hazon Food Conference

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Thanks to Julia Segal for these reflections. Julia serves on the planning committee for the Hazon Food Conference and is a student at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. It’s a natural season for abundance and gratitude, autumn bringing harvest holidays and rituals in virtually every culture.  In ...
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• The Debate: Eating Meat (or not) at the Hazon Food Conference

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  The Jew and The Carrot, Hazon’s blog about Jews, food and contemporary life.  The blog has a diverse and inclusive community, where we welcome readers and volunteer writers from across the Jewish denominational spectrum, and from all walks of culinary life.  Our aim is to ensure that The Jew and The Carrot ...
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• Spotted: Sotomayor on Smith Street

  
  Cobble Hill Blog — Authority: 472
  Politico reports a Justice Sonia Sotomayor sighting: A rare benefit of being a Brooklyn based political reporter: Michael Crowley tweets , “It’s not every night you sit down in a Brooklyn restaurant ( Po ) and notice a Supreme Court justice (Sotomayor) two tables away.” “She left her purse on a chair; ...
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• USDA Data Reveals Record 49 Million Hungry in America in 2008

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  The USDA has released its data for hunger [pdf] in the United States, and the numbers aren’t good. In 2007, 36 million people were classified ‘food insecure’. In 2008, the figure was 49 million — an increase of 13 million. Children were badly affected, though older children took the hit if they had younger ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Case for Healthy School Lunches

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 548
  The Child Nutrition Act is up for renewal and Congress has extended the deadline to early 2010. We’ve talked before about the pitiful school lunch situation in the U.S. and about how you can help advocate healthy lunches for healthy kids . What we haven’t really covered are the whys. Are the benefits of ...
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• Few questions, more praise, for Siddiqui at confirmation hearing

  
  Community Alliance for Global Justice — Authority: 112
    Few questions, more praise, for Siddiqui at confirmation hearing Monday November 09 2009 Volume: 51 Issue: 36   Food Chemical News   No fewer than 80 chiefly environmental advocacy groups have issued a statement painting Islam Siddiqui as too pro-pesticide and biotech to be chief agricultural negotiator for the ...
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• The global harvest

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  As Thanksgiving approaches, we tend to focus more on what we have to be grateful for.  We have a bountiful food supply, symbolized at this time of year by horns of plenty, Turkey Day feasts at our tables and in trade magazines from Country Living to Better Homes and Gardens, among others. The stewardship of sending ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Fair Food Project Tells Farmworkers Stories (VIDEO)

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  If you eat, you rely on farmers, but you also rely on the labor of 2.5 million farm workers in the United States who earn wages below the poverty limit ($10,000 per year) while risking their lives in the harshest conditions in order to bring us most of the food we eat on a day to day basis. Photographer and writer ...
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• World Summit on Food Security

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Cross-posted on From the Ground — the blog of American Jewish World Service (AJWS). The World Summit on Food Security is happening right now (November 16 to 18) in Rome. According to an article in today’s New York Times , world leaders have rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help ...
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• WHERE’S THE BEEF? NOT IN THE URJ’S NEW ETHICAL EATING INITIATIVE

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  In his Shabbat morning sermon to 3500+ members of Reform congregations at the  URJ’s 70th Biennial Convention in Toronto , Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) , launched the Green Table, Just Table - Shulhan Yarok, Schulhan Tzedek initiative calling for a commitment to ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Farm in Danger: Help Save Bed-Stuy Farm

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 508
  In one Brooklyn community, neighborhood residents are fighting to keep their farm. Bed-Stuy Farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4,000 people a month through the Brooklyn Rescue Mission . The Farm is ...
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• The Struggle for Land Rights in Thailand

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Cross-posted on From the Ground — the blog of American Jewish World Service (AJWS). This post is authored by Susan Rosenberg, AJWS’s Director of Communications, who is blogging from the field in Thailand. Greetings from Thailand, where fighting hunger, achieving food security and land ownership are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Check out a Food Justice Project Youtube Video!!

  
  Community Alliance for Global Justice — Authority: 112
  Click the link below to see an awesome video slideshow that highlights our two current projects, the Teach Out! site visits and Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice – activist guide and recipe book. Great job to Molly Woodring and Laura Brady for working on this together!   Make sure you turn your ...
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• Urban Gardening Radio Show

  
  Community Alliance for Global Justice — Authority: 112
  November 7, 2009 – Green $ense Urban Farming This edition of Green $ense will focus on urban agriculture – from gardening to farming – as Robert Colangelo interviews guests that include non-profits, visionaries, and entrepreneurs that are reducing the carbon footprint by bringing food to the people. Tune ...
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• Agro-Ecology in Colombia: Farming in the Face of Flooding

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Cross-posted on From the Ground — the blog of American Jewish World Service (AJWS). Imagine waking up one morning to find your crops—the food that keeps you alive—completely submerged in water and entirely destroyed. This is exactly what happened along the Sinú River in northern Colombia, a region that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Teach-Out! Reportback: Jubilee Farms and Local Roots

  
  Community Alliance for Global Justice — Authority: 112
  Teach Out! at Jubilee and Local Roots A Reflection by Valentina de la Fuente At today’s Teach Out to Jubilee and Local Roots farms in Carnation, we hear from farmers on their experiences farming in the Snoqualmie Valley, one of the last remaining regions in King County designated specifically as farm ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Chat With Noah Alper, Schmear King

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Recently I had the chance to speak with Noah Alper, founder of the eponymous Noah’s Bagels.  Noah, who sold Noah’s Bagels in 1999, has been in the food business since the 1970s, when he started Bread and Circus, the East Coast natural food chain (bought by Whole Foods in 1992).  He’s kept kosher since the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Win a copy of Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 425
  Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals is not for the faint of heart. His recent article in the New York Times (excerpted from the first chapter) includes stories of his grand-mother, a holocaust survivor, which he uses to define himself as well as frame his book. The Jew and The Carrot’s Jonathan ...
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