Stories

Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
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.
Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
China’s Changing Diet: Meat and Dairy on the Rise
Local impacts, global implications, and promising solutions.
Food Systems & Climate Change, Reducing Food Waste
Wasted Food and a New Spin on the 3 Rs
Wasted food experts and advocates are putting a new spin on the three Rs—reduce, recover, recycle.
Food System Change in Baltimore, Food Systems & Urbanization
Within Reason: Getting the Most from Urban Ag
Residents in lower-income communities fear (often rightfully so) that urban gardens will make their neighborhoods more attractive to developers and increase property values—which makes rents and property taxes go up.
Food Equity, Food Animal Production
Ruffled Feathers at Wicomico County Town Hall
The impetus for the town hall was a proposed broiler operation near Salisbury that would include up to 13 broiler houses.
Strengthening Food System Resilience, Food Systems & Urbanization
Stuck in the middle with you: Peri-urban areas and the food system
Peri-urban areas play a large role in the food system, especially for businesses involved in the intermediate stages of the food supply chain, such as processing and storage.
Reducing Food Waste
Survey Says – Confusion about Food Date Labels
Food date labels are not federally regulated.
Forced Labor and Worker Rights in Seafood Supply Chains
I was first introduced to labor rights in the food industry after watching the documentary Food Chain$.