September 2, 2020 – By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, The New York Times Magazine – Beyond the pandemic emergency, there is a food crisis hidden in plain sight: Millions struggling for years to feed their families. More links How Hunger Persists in a Rich Country Like America
August 30, 2020 – By Jessie Luna and Brian Dowd-Uribe – The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once the poster child for genetically modified (GM) crop advocates. Its 2008 adoption of GM cotton for smallholder farmers was hailed as an example of how these technologies could alleviate poverty and food insecurity by protecting
July 23, 2020 – Bangor Daily News – Over the past months, a number of local farms, along with the Merrymeeting Gleaners and the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust (BTLT), have been working together on an ambitious project to collect and distribute hundreds of seedlings to dozens of food access programs across the southern midcoast region. More
July 21, 2020 – News Center Maine – More than 10,000 food boxes will be distributed per week for 8 weeks across Maine. This is part of the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. More links Episcopal Diocese of Maine, Pineland Farm partner to give York County residents free food boxes
July 20, 2020 – By Nicole Flatow, Bloomberg CityLab – From grocery stores and online delivery to farms and restaurants, how and where we get our food may never look the same. More links The Future of Our Food Supply
July 17, 2020 – Maine Initiatives – How Maine Initiatives’ grantees are creating systems that promote food security and food sovereignty, particularly for Maine’s Immigrant and Tribal communities, demonstrating that food justice is a racial justice issue. More links COVID-19 Issue Spotlight: Food Justice
July 16, 2020 – By Sara Gilgore, DC Inno – Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman and his wife, Julie Farkas, are putting their money where their mouths are. More links Honest Tea founder’s new nonprofit doles out first wave of funding
July 12, 2020 – By Fran Gonzalez, Village Soup Waldo – A new effort in Waldo County is quickly making inroads with a network of community leaders, farmers and growers, local artists, small businesses, and creative-thinkers working together to tackle food insecurity. More links Innovative grower campaign aims to relieve food insecurity
July 7, 2020 – Rutgers Today – How can some of world’s biggest problems – climate change, food security and land degradation – be tackled simultaneously? More links How to Tackle Climate Change, Food Security and Land Degradation
July 7, 2020 – By Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News – The pandemic has revealed deep flaws in the world’s food system and food leaders are calling for global coordination and climate resilient agriculture. More links Think Covid-19 Disrupted the Food Chain? Wait and See What Climate Change Will Do
