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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected a petition by Tyson Foods that sought to have a case brought on behalf of four workers who died of COVID-19 heard in federal court.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the importance of ensuring schoolchildren have enough good food and nutrition to fuel their learning and previewed the upcoming White House hunger conference at a Washington, D.C., elementary school Friday.
Meatpacking companies coordinated extensively with USDA officials and others in the Trump administration to keep their plants running in 2020 despite the growing risk of coronavirus to their workers, according to a congressional report that is based on internal industry documents.
Cuba has struggled for decades to feed its people, but because of U.S. sanctions and the impacts of the COVID pandemic, the country is becoming more desperate to buy U.S. grain and meat.
Workers at companies with 100 or more employees will have to either get vaccinated for COVID-19 or wear face masks and take weekly tests under an emergency standard published Friday.
Picking California’s citrus crops typically involves a single worker per tree, a naturally socially-distant practice that has lessened the pandemic’s impact on harvests.
Ethanol industry advocates will be urging Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, or his likely successor, Tom Vilsack, to provide direct assistance to biofuel producers hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, even though a new aid package wouldn't require the payments to be made.
As the economic impacts of COVID-19 spread, communities around the world are facing yet another invisible and immediate challenge: hunger. The pandemic is set to push an estimated 265 million people worldwide to the brink of starvation by the end of the year. Denise Cheung and Dilip Wagle take a look at how these global challenges are affecting a local community in the United States.
Jess Fanzo, associate professor of global food and agriculture policy and ethics at Johns Hopkins University, and Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition team up in this article to share more information on the Food Systems Dashboard, a new easy-to-navigate online tool designed to help decision makers and other users in the US and around the world understand their food systems.
