Today is the UN’s World Food Safety Day, and we’re taking the opportunity to focus our conversation on food safety in the U.S. at a time when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leadership across several administrations has come under increasing fire for putting more focus on medical and drug regulation without providing an equal level oversight to food safety.
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Food deserts are defined as an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food. However, the definition of food deserts on its own doesn’t do much to account for the structural injustice that maintains lack of access in food deserts.
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Cesar Chavez Day celebrates the life and work of the late labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez who helped make major progress for farmworker rights. In commemorating the life and work of Chavez we also want to recognize and acknowledge the activists, organizers, and farm workers that came before him and those he worked alongside who through their collaborative efforts pushed this movement forward.
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Has your grocery bill gone up lately? We’ve compiled a list of articles and podcasts from leading food journalists about the reality behind your higher grocery bill. Spoiler alert: it’s more complicated than just “inflation.”
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After promises of reform with the Justice for Black Farmers Act and debt relief have been hindered by bank lobbyists and collectives of white farmers, Black farmers are left still waiting for justice.
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As we navigate these dramatic cost increases and the increasing disruptions to food supply, it’s becoming more evident than ever that our food systems will need to change.
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In the ancient city of Cyrene, a desire to gain as much profit as possible from Silphium led to the overproduction and mismanagement of the crop – ultimately resulting in the destruction of an entire city and culture.
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This Native American Heritage Month, as we continue to celebrate the community leaders and organizations preserving Native food traditions and environmental stewardship across the Americas, we must also recognize and acknowledge the history that has necessitated these efforts.
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This month, our team at Point of Origin is highlighting the vital role the Latinx community plays in both the history and present-day facilitation of food systems in the United States.
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The food sovereignty movement is a response to the design of our global food system– a top-down model that places power in the hands of corporations and institutions, fuels industrial agriculture, and breeds monocultures and overproduction.
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In September of 1965, grape pickers in Delano, California – led by Larry Itliong and other Filipino-Americans in the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee – initiated what today is considered one of the most important strikes in American history.
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Five organizations combatting food insecurity in AAPI communities.
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We're excited to share a production update with you, along with some more behind-the-scenes footage from our first almond shoot in early March.
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Criticisms of the palm oil industry have intensified in recent years, but the prevailing narrative excludes an important part of palm oil’s story–its origin story.
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We’ve compiled a brief timeline of the history of land access for Black farmers in the US – a history underscored by systemic discrimination and dispossession.
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We've compiled a brief timeline of the history of land access for Black farmers in the US - a history underscored by systemic discrimination and dispossession.
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A Conversation with Bountiful's Head of Sustainability
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The current movement in India is more than what we are witnessing today, it symbolizes an opportunity for growers across the world.
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The sustainable, food-secure future we want to see is only possible if we’re willing to learn from our past, and carve out a new, more equitable path.