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“Leveraging the USDA to tackle nutrition insecurity and systemic racism in the food system” with USDA Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean

Friday, April 19th, 2024 The UM Sustainable Food System Initiative, Transformative Food System (TFS) Fellows welcomed USDA Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean, to speak on her career path from a UM student at the Ford School of Public Policy to working inside the federal government to advance President Biden’s agenda to improve nutrition assistance for struggling families and individuals.  […]

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John Vandermeer at Fast Food for Thought | “Inevitability of Surprise in the Food System”

John Vandermeer (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) gives a tiny talk titled “Inevitability of Surprise in the Food System” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by Winona Bynum, Detroit Food Policy Council. Learn more about Food Literacy For All sessions here.

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Samina Raja | “Rustbelt Radicalism Revisited: How Community Action Spurs Food Systems [Policy] Transformation”

April 2, 2019 Much like in the rest of the country, food systems in Buffalo, NY have been overlooked in local government planning and policy. Yet, the food system has played a key role in the rustbelt city’s history and renaissance. This talk explores the ways in which ordinary, incremental, and collective action by community

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Shirley Sherrod | “Food Literacy vs. Food Access: Can one be addressed in isolation of the other?”

March 26, 2019 This discussion will focus on what should be the intersectionality of food access and food literacy as they relate to people of color in the rural South. SouthWest Georgia will be presented as a case study. A profile of a 13 county area will be provided. Emphasis will be placed on the

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