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With more than a thousand fjords, Norway is the world’s leading producer of farm-raised Atlantic salmon. The CLF team is investigating resource use in the country's aquaculture operations.

The research team aims to help Pangasius farmers become more energy- and water-efficient, reduce waste and increase profits and stewardship.

Successes in food policy work can make a big difference, from empowering urban farmers to putting food recovery plans into action. But policy work can lack glitz. And when the successes happen, they’re often a long time in materializing.

CLF’s high school curriculum, FoodSpan, helped cafeteria managers get a chance to step back and think about food systems as a whole.

Dr. Shiva discussed the importance of local food sovereignty – local control of food production, and thus local control of soil health and nutrition.

Judging from the CLF survey results, it does seem that an impressive number of residents are more aware of the carbon footprint of meat, as a result of the initiative.

“Before I started at the Center for a Livable Future,” says Kenai McFadden, “I didn’t even know what a food system is.”

Teachers engaged nursing and pharmacy tech students in discussions about people who are most likely to experience food insecurity.

Compensation for farmers is essential to reducing on-farm losses.

People working to push back on Iowa’s hog confinement industry have finally found a few notes that resonate on a large scale.