Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
Limiting Antibiotics Misuse in Food Animals – Legislation We Need
In Maryland, three bills have been introduced in 2016 in the state legislature to address antibiotic misuse.
Food Policy & Governance
Structuring Your Food Policy Council
Organizational development is a dynamic process—re-evaluate and modify your organization to meet needs.
Strengthening Food System Resilience
Favorite Foods: Reshaping the Resilience Conversation
By asking ourselves what foods we can’t live without, and then imagining a world without them, we can form a more constructive dialogue about both sustainability and resilience.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
In Annapolis Policymakers Claim to Protect Farmers, Protect Bay
The Farmers’ Rights Act would help Maryland lawmakers take meaningful steps toward protecting the region’s contract growers.
Food Systems & Climate Change
A View from the COP21 Sidelines
If our world leaders think we will solve all of the problems we are already – and will increasingly be – experiencing as a result of climate change with simple public education or eco-tree benches, they’re delusional.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries, Food Systems & Climate Change
Meat, Paris, and Next Steps
According to the UN, livestock production is responsible for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Food Animal Production, Food Policy & Governance
We Need to Collect Data about Antibiotics Used on Farms
With these data, we could examine how use changes over time and identify patterns that could ultimately drive research into recurrent disease risks
Food Policy & Governance
Talent at the Table: Making the Most of Your Food Policy Council
Engagement starts with “hello.”
Reducing Food Waste
Reducing Food Waste and Setting the Table for All
Every year the soup kitchen at the Franciscan Center of Baltimore serves 100,000 meals and donates 8,000 bags of groceries to the hungry.
Food Systems & Climate Change, Reducing Food Waste
What Restaurants Can Teach Us about Reducing Food Waste
Barber turned pulp from a juice bar into a veggie burger and the spent grains from a brewery into bread.