Food justice readings
Oil, Biofuels and Climate Change: Resources as Food
What's for dinner? Corn ethanol, feedlots and what you eat
A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World
Genetically Engineered Food
Fact Sheet: Food Aid in the New Millenium - Genetically Engineered Food and Foreign Assistance
Hunger, Food Costs and Food Assistance
The Food Crisis Comes Home: Empty food banks, rising costs--symptoms of a hungrier nation
Farmers and Fertilizers
Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer
World’s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut
In Fertile India, Growth Outstrips Agriculture
Food Deserts, Poor Neighborhoods and Obesity
Walmart charges more for groceries in low income neighborhoods
Making Food Deserts Bloom
Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6011http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2008/11/living_in_a_food_desert.html
Hunger
Shipping and Food Trade
Food Myths (attached)
Organizations (local, US and international) International Alliance Against Hunger: http://www.iaahp.net/
Hunger No More: http://www.hungernomore.org/quotations.html (quotes and resources)
World Food Program: http://www.wfp.org/english/?n=681
Feeding America.org: http://feedingamerica.org/?show_shov=1
Food Security: Excellent basic information about food issues from US Govt.: http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsec/
Mazon (activism on hunger): http://www.mazon.org/
Food and Water Watch: http://www.fwwatch.org/
National Eating Disorders Association: http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
KidsHealth (eating disorders): http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/eating_disorders.html Greater Boston Food Bank: http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/eating_disorders.html
Project Bread (Walk for Hunger): www.projectbread.org
Oxfam: check out the site and read a few pages about global food issues: http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/agriculture
What's for dinner? Corn ethanol, feedlots and what you eat
A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World
Genetically Engineered Food
Fact Sheet: Food Aid in the New Millenium - Genetically Engineered Food and Foreign Assistance
Hunger, Food Costs and Food Assistance
The Food Crisis Comes Home: Empty food banks, rising costs--symptoms of a hungrier nation
Farmers and Fertilizers
Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer
World’s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut
In Fertile India, Growth Outstrips Agriculture
Food Deserts, Poor Neighborhoods and Obesity
Walmart charges more for groceries in low income neighborhoods
Making Food Deserts Bloom
Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6011http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2008/11/living_in_a_food_desert.html
Hunger
Shipping and Food Trade
Food Myths (attached)
Organizations (local, US and international) International Alliance Against Hunger: http://www.iaahp.net/
Hunger No More: http://www.hungernomore.org/quotations.html (quotes and resources)
World Food Program: http://www.wfp.org/english/?n=681
Feeding America.org: http://feedingamerica.org/?show_shov=1
Food Security: Excellent basic information about food issues from US Govt.: http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsec/
Mazon (activism on hunger): http://www.mazon.org/
Food and Water Watch: http://www.fwwatch.org/
National Eating Disorders Association: http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
KidsHealth (eating disorders): http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/eating_disorders.html Greater Boston Food Bank: http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/eating_disorders.html
Project Bread (Walk for Hunger): www.projectbread.org
Oxfam: check out the site and read a few pages about global food issues: http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/agriculture