Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Food Equity
Franciscan Center Kicks Off Innovative Fresh Food Project
The Franciscan Center has made great strides in expanding its healthy food initiatives over the past few years.
Strengthening Food System Resilience
Growing Justice (in Democracy-Deprived Detroit)
The poor, said Malik Yakini, become markets for cheap inferior goods sold by the rich, much like in colonized lands.
Food Equity, Food Policy & Governance
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Benefits
USDA expanded eligibility for grants for equipment that makes it possible for farmers to accept SNAP EBT cards.
Food Animal Production
The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production: 5-Year Follow-Up
The Center has undertaken a project to analyze the original recommendations of the Commission.
Food Policy & Governance, Seafood & the Food System
State agencies sometimes send mixed messages to recreational anglers
Mixed messaging on which recreationally caught fish are safe to catch versus which are safe to eat are not uncommon.
Strengthening Food System Resilience
Coursera Wrap-Up
“An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health” enrolled more than 17,000 students from around the world.
Food System Change in Baltimore
Peces y Plantas—Juntos Felices
Fish excrete ammonia; bacteria convert the ammonia into nitrites; different bacteria convert nitrites into nitrates; the plants consume the nitrates.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance, Seafood & the Food System
FDA Feeling the Heat on Genetically Engineered Salmon
Opposition is building rapidly to a pending approval of the first genetically-engineered animal in the US food supply.
Food Policy & Governance, Seafood & the Food System
FDA Feeling the Heat on Genetically Engineered Salmon
Jillian Fry spelled out the reasons that the Center opposes the process for considering GE salmon.
Food Systems & Climate Change, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Energy and Soil: Q&A with Francis Thicke
How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient?