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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
The White House has launched an effort to get Medicare and Medicaid, and eventually private health plans, to provide medically tailored meals to all Americans, a goal that produce growers hope will ultimately expand consumption of fruits and vegetables.
Celebrity Chef José Andrés says that giving Americans access to the right food is the answer to the nation's twin problems with hunger and diet-related diseases.
A $250 million research initiative on using food as medicine is among $8 billion in private-sector commitments being announced today in conjunction with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
While the Inflation Reduction Act increases funding for existing agricultural conservation projects, its investment in renewable energy has the potential to also help expand indoor agriculture.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., says she is not interested in making cuts to the nutrition title in the upcoming farm bill, but is open to reforms.
The much-anticipated White House hunger and nutrition conference set for Sept. 28 will feature the release of a national strategy that's expected to lay out a blueprint for ending hunger and addressing diet-related diseases that could very well embrace the old parental admonition: Eat your vegetables.
In this opinion piece, Bruce Taylor and Laura Himes of the International Fresh Produce Association discuss a strategy that increases Americans’ fruit and vegetable consumption and a way to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans targets by 2030.
Mission Produce has selected Timothy Bulow as the company’s next president and COO and Chief Financial Officer Larry Dicke is set to retire from the California Chamber of Commerce.
Jon Doggett has announced plans to leave the National Corn Growers Association next year, and Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-N.Y., to serve as Lieutenant Governor of New York.