Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Food Animal Production
Supporting Leaders and Building Capacity in Fenceline Communities
The Elsie Herring Community Leader fellowships are intended to build capacity of organizations on the front lines of environmental justice impacts related to industrial food animal production.
Food Animal Production, Food Systems & Climate Change
The Manure Problem and the False Promise of Biogas
At the 6th Annual JHU Sustainability Symposium, CLF researchers addressed the harms created by industrial livestock operations.
Food Animal Production
Journalism Fellows Kick Off Program with Visit to Eastern Shore
The inaugural cohort of journalists in the Food Systems and Public Health Journalism Fellowship program met with workers injured in industrial poultry slaughterhouses.
Food Animal Production
Five Fellows Collaborate to Tackle the Public Health Implications of Industrial Food Animal Production
Five CLF-Lerner Fellows spanning 17 years of fellowship support are still collaborating on research regarding industrial food animal production.
Food Equity, Food Policy & Governance
You Had to Be There: Working on Equity in Jackson, Mississippi
A Community of Learning and Practice convened in Mississippi to deepen practices of justice.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
CLF Stalwart Bob Martin Steps Back, Reflects
Long-time food system reform advocate Bob Martin reflects on his career and industrial food animal production.
Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
A Victory for Oklahoma in Poultry Pollution Case
A federal judge has ordered 11 poultry companies in Oklahoma to remediate the watershed and limit their spreading of manure on crops.
Seafood & the Food System
A Mentorship That Connected the Dots
Through a CLF mentorship, high school student Ashantae Hayward has nurtured a passion for public health.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
10 Years of Mapping for Positive Change
Maps can identify trends and point out where things are happening, and to what degree.
Food Equity, Food Systems & Climate Change, Food Policy & Governance
Panel Addresses Risks Faced by Farmworkers: Heat, Pesticides, and Other Inequities
APHA panelists discussed climate change as a factor that exacerbates risks and inequities affecting farmworker populations.