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Healthy Eating: Food, Family, and Good Nutrition
The stresses of Covid-19, climate, and conflict have led to unanticipated, often negative, transformations of local and global food systems over the past few years. Neither governments nor the private businesses that make markets work have been able to fully cushion the blows. Supply chain disruptions have left farmers large and small unable to sell in markets and many consumers unable to access or afford the foods they want and need.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit: What’s at Stake for the United States?
February 9, 2021 Last fall, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutérres announced he would convene a major UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in New York this September. He made clear that the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could not be achieved without transforming the world’s food and agriculture systems to become more productive, environmentally sustainable, and able to deliver more nutritious, affordable food.
People, Animals, and Bacteria: The Need to Address Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Livestock Production
November 24, 2020 Bacteria associated with the food supply have long caused human illnesses and deaths. Just a year ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a warning about the consumption of romaine lettuce from California. People in many states were becoming ill with after eating romaine contaminated with a strain of bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli); some of those infected required hospitalization. Within the last month, the CDC has linked a new outbreak of E.
Covid-19 Threatens Global Food Security: What Should the United States Do?
April 22, 2020 In recent weeks, the United States and other high- and middle-income countries have taken bold steps to contain the Covid-19 disease. The spread of the coronavirus is at an earlier stage in lower-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. But there is every reason to believe that impacts will be devastating as governments—South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, and many others—have already begun to shut down many businesses and put travel restrictions in place.
Opinion: Eating for (global) health — whose responsibility is it?
Food preferences and dietary patterns around the world are evolving rapidly. Incomes are rising, more people are living in urban areas, and markets are offering an increasingly wide variety of foods, including processed and prepared foods. But the global trend is not toward the better nutritional status. Diets are changing but not always in healthy directions. While hunger remains a challenge for an estimated 800 million people, nearly 2 billion are now overweight or obese.
We need a legal, stable agriculture workforce: how do we get there?
While immigration reform continues to be a hotly debated issue in the Presidential campaigns, we at AGree want to keep a spotlight on the importance of this subject to American agriculture. Vibrant production of healthy and high-value foods for American consumers requires the work of many hands – whether to plant, weed, pick, or process California strawberries, Georgia peaches, or Michigan cherries or to milk New Hampshire cows or shepherd lambs in Wyoming.
Elevate food and agriculture as national priority
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