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Dec 12, 2013

Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Hospitals: Farmer-Focused Report

Executive Summary
Dec 12, 2013

Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Hospitals: Hospital-Focused Report

by
Anna Claussen
Executive Summary Key lessons learned The 1,493 community hospitals and VA hospitals/medical centers in the north central U.S.—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin—spend an estimated $718 million to 1.3 billion each year on food and beverages.
Dec 12, 2013

Growing Farm to Hospital

by
Anna Claussen
A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown.
Dec 11, 2013

Rights to water and sanitation now legally binding

by
Shiney Varghese
On November 21, the U.N. General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” All U.N. member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living.
Dec 10, 2013

Terminator seeds are coming

by
Dale Wiehoff
Tell the Brazilian embassy in Washington, DC to Stop Terminator Seeds Call: +1 (202) 238-2700
Dec 9, 2013

Agroecology should be at the core of USDA’s mission

by
Dr. M. Jahi Chappell
The comment period recently closed on the USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Action Plan Draft, which responded to informal and formal consultations with internal and external advisors and stakeholders, and “lessons learned from implementation of Farm Bill provisions.” I
Dec 6, 2013

Last day at the 9th WTO Ministerial: Food security hangs in the balance

by
Shefali Sharma
IATP's Shefali Sharma is reporting from the 9th WTO Ministerial in Bali, Indonesia. 2 p.m., Bali, Indonesia
Dec 6, 2013

Draft deal lays groundwork for future negotiations on exempting food security programs from WTO disputes

by
Shefali Sharma
Update: The ministerial text was accepted on Saturday morning with minor changes to assuage Cuba's concerns. See a video report from Shefali Sharma regarding Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia's move to block consensus on the agreement on the morning of December 7.