Published originally here on August 8th, 2022. By Jim Erickson | Michigan News | ericksn@umich.edu The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way grocery stores do business, with online sales rising more than 50% from 2019 to 2020 in the United States. As shoppers searched for safe and convenient ways to get essential items, grocers adapted to […]
This was originally published here by the UM School of Public Health. U-M, Farm Bureau working together to reduce hunger in Michigan New project from Kate Bauer, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences July 20, 2022 New project seeks to improve food assistance programs by empowering parents and elevating families’ expertise For long-time Ishpeming resident Lizzy Nevala, her
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Published originally here on April 4, 2022. Despite Detroit’s reputation as a mecca for urban agriculture, a new University of Michigan-led analysis of the city’s Lower Eastside, which covers 15 square miles, found that community and private gardens occupy less than 1% of the vacant land. Even so, gardens on Detroit’s Lower Eastside, which has
Date: January 11, 2022 Time: 2:00 pm EST Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/6605563009 Meeting ID: 660 556 3009 Passcode: 01112022 Title: Environmental Justice and Governance Dynamics of Supply Chains in the Livestock Sector Abstract: In 2006, the United Nations published Livestock’s Long Shadow, a landmark study that documented the global environmental impacts associated with livestock production (Steinfeld et al., 2006). Since then, academic studies, popular
September 13, 2021 Authors: SFSI affiliates Lesli Hoey, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Kathryn Colasanti, Alex Judelsohn, Mrithula Shantha Thirumalai Anandanpillai, and Keerthana Vidyasagar Completed in August of 2021, this report offers a snapshot of national trends and a directory of food systems plans and charters that exist at state and regional levels across the United States.
Eating a hot dog could cost you 36 minutes of healthy life, while choosing to eat a serving of nuts instead could help you gain 26 minutes of extra healthy life, according to a University of Michigan study. The study, published in the journal Nature Food, evaluated more than 5,800 foods, ranking them by their nutritional disease
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SFSI affiliate Dr. Lesli Hoey co-authored an opinion article entitled “UN food systems summit leaders must not remain silent on its inadequate rules of engagement with commercial actors” on Sept 1, 2021 (see original publication here). The pre-summit to September’s United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in Rome at the end of July 2021, confirmed the
Figure 4. Prototype interface for the urban farms GUI REDESIGNING ON-LINE FOOD CONSUMPTION TO ENHANCE RACIAL AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH GENERATIVE PRODUCTION NETWORKS Keesa V. Johnson1, Ron Eglash2* 1Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ABSTRACT The food
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Published originally here by By Jim Erickson, Michigan News | April 15, 2021 Read the full study here featuring SFSI affiliates Martin Heller and Greg Keoleian. A lot of attention has been paid in recent years to the carbon footprint of the foods we eat, with much of the focus on the outsize contribution of
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Figure 4. A Spatial Analysis of Good Food Stories in Michigan. Stories as indicators: Lessons learned using the Most Significant Change method to evaluate food systems work in Michigan Authors: Lilly Fink Shapiro, Lesli Hoey, and Kathryn Colasanti ABSTRACT Food systems initiatives regularly use stories as a communication tool to showcase and gain attention for
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