Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Food and Climate: What Food Policy Councils Can Do
What would it look like if we incorporated food system issues into climate action plans?
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
Maryland Antibiotics Legislation May Have Little Impact
The proposed 2017 legislation does not ensure that any animals will be raised free from antibiotics.
Food Equity, Food Policy & Governance
Inviting Arts and Creativity into Food Policy Councils
We need to invite more creativity into our work lives, into our food councils, into our conversations with stakeholders.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Maryland Legislators Dodge Questions about Poultry Industry
Monica Brooks is concerned about the growth of operations by companies like Tyson, Mountaire Farms and Perdue in Wicomico County, and their placement atop the Paleochannel, which is Salisbury’s main source of water.
Strengthening Food System Resilience, Food Equity, Food Systems & Climate Change
Wendell Berry Wants Us to Get Small and Stay In
“If you’re a married man, art doesn’t come before anything. If you have a child, art doesn’t come before anything. And if you have livestock, art doesn’t come before anything.”
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
Republican Maryland Favors Regulations for Poultry Industry
Do voters in these four Republican counties—Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester—really want an end to regulations on industry? A recent public opinion poll by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future suggests the opposite.
Food Equity, Food System Change in Baltimore
Policy in Action: Bringing a Grocery Store to East Baltimore
This area of East Baltimore was one of the most entrenched food deserts in the city before the Save a Lot opened.
Food Equity, Food Policy & Governance
Uncomfortable Questions about Urban Ag
Concerns about gentrification over misguided efforts by wealthy, white urban dwellers to bring community gardens to poor, black neighborhoods.
Food Animal Production
China’s Changing Diet: How to Turn the Tide
Implications of the Chinese diet and how Meatless Monday can be a part of the process.
Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
China’s Changing Diet: Environment and Health Impacts
Local and global implications of the shifts in China—and how China’s health experts are responding.