Stories

Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Strengthening Food System Resilience, Food Policy & Governance, Food Equity
Emergency Covid Food Policies: Can They Become Permanent Reform?
Emergency food security funding could lead to more lasting, broad-reaching reform once life returns to normal.
Strengthening Food System Resilience, Food Policy & Governance, Food Equity
Food Security in the Time of Covid: It’s Not Charity, It’s Justice
The pandemic is new to us, but the virus is drawing our attention to long-existing problems in our food systems, and exacerbating them.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance, Food Systems & Climate Change
CLF Supports Maryland Food Policy Legislation
CLF testified in Annapolis on several bills supporting local farmers, climate change mitigation, and more.
Food Equity, Food Policy & Governance
How the Food Sovereignty Movement Is Reflected in USDA Data
Who grows what in the United States?
Food Policy & Governance, Food Equity
Controversies around Farm Workforce Modernization Act
The bipartisan bill intended to support both farmers and migrant workers is being evaluated critically by farmworker advocacy groups.
Food Policy & Governance, Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Support for Iowa Moratorium on Hog Confinement Operations
A majority of Iowans want greater oversight over the industrial swine industry.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Reducing Food Waste, Food System Change in Baltimore
Urban Food Waste Interventions: Where To Go Next
How much do we really know about the effectiveness of food waste interventions?
Food Policy & Governance, Food Animal Production, Food Equity
True Cost Accounting: Can We Put a Price Tag on Extraction and Exploitation?
Frameworks for quantifying the impact of the current food system models.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Food Systems & Climate Change, Reducing Food Waste
Trending at COP25: Promising Movement on Food Systems
The UN climate conference is finally acknowledging the connection between food systems, climate change, and health.
Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Food Equity
What do food service management companies think consumers care about?
Why do companies like Aramark and Sodexo advertise with words like “sustainable” and “local?”