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WEBINAR RESOURCES - Public and Farmer Attitudes on Food, Farming, and Biofuels

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2010 Forum
Philly's Greensgrow farm: An unconventional hybrid that works - Grist, part of their Breaking Through Concrete series on urban agriculture.

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Re-regionalizing the Food System? Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society
This edition of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is devoted to examining food system (re)-regionalization — a topic that has exploded in academic and public policy circles over the last 5 years. The growing interest in regionalizing food systems is linked to broader concerns that the conventional agro-industrial food system has not effectively provided a nutritious, sustainable and equitable supply of food to the world's population. The majority of the papers in this issue begin with the assumption that the conventional agro-industrial food system is malfunctioning. The interpretation of how broken and what to do about it, however, is where these papers diverge and offer varied perspectives on food system re-regionalization.

Healthy Food Action: Making Health the Future of Food and Farming
A website dedicated to helping health professionals speak out and take action to improve the food system.

Coming Up Short: High food costs outstrip food stamp benefits [PDF]
The Real Cost of a Healthy Diet Project investigated the availability and affordability of healthy food in two cities.  This project, based at the Boston Medical Center and Drexel University's School of Public Health, examined whether low-income residents in Boston and Philadelphia could buy food for a healthy diet using the maximum food stamp benefit in their neighborhood food stores.  The study found that even families receiving the maximum food stamp benefit would have to spend an additional $2,520 in Boston and $3,165 in Philadelphia annually to purchase the Thrifty Food Plan.

Food First Backgrounder 2010: Food Workers - Food Justice: Linking food, labor, and immigrant rights
Some 17% of all jobs in the U.S. are in the food sector . These jobs are the lowest paid and most under-protected jobs in the nation. They are also the occupations with significant concentrations of undocumented immigrant workers. Food workers, especially immigrants, are subsidizing the food industry by paying the social and economic cost of labor injustice. The movement for food justice cannot thrive in a system where food workers are criminalized, exploited, and even going hungry themselves.

Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum
The curriculum is divided into four modules: one each for consumers, faith and anti-hunger groups, environmentalists and farmers. This collection of education-for-action exercises and factsheets has been developed by Grassroots International and the National Family Farm Coalition to help build the food sovereignty movement in the United States.