Food Crisis Information Sheets
The Food & Society Policy Fellows have created a series of briefing papers on the causes and impacts of the escalating food crisis and rising food costs.
Child Nutrition & WIC Reauthorization Act 2009: A Policy Toolkit for Food & Society Policy Fellows
By Angie Tagtow, Andrea Collier, and Susan Roberts
This toolkit is to equip Food & Society Policy Fellows to educate the public and policy makers in the next year as policy is around the Child Nutrition & WIC Reauthorization.
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Is There a Food Scarcity?
By Curt Ellis
Compares the current food crisis to that of the 1970s, provides statistics on global food inflation, proposes that alternative food could expand market-share in current crisis.
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Agricultural Biofuels as Food Crisis Driver
By Curt Ellis and Jim Goodman
Explores agricultural biofuels as a driver of the recent food price increases.
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Peak Oil as Food Crisis Driver
By Curt Ellis
Looks at the relationship between rising petroleum cost and rising food prices.
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International Policy as Food Crisis Driver
By Curt Ellis and Jim Goodman
Explores US international policy's role in creating present food crisis.
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U.S. Farm Policy and the Food Crisis
By Aimee Witteman
Considers U.S. farm policy's historic and current role in food crises.
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Climate Change and Agriculture
By Anthony Flaccavento
Explores the role that agriculture has had on climate change and offers some solutions.
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Rising World Populations and Changing Food Consumption Patterns as Food Crisis Driver
By Alissa Hamilton
Explores the "livestock revolution" as one of the factors being blamed for rising food prices and the resulting food crisis.
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Impacts of Rising Food Costs
By Andrea Collier, Rose Hayden-Smith, Angie Tagtow, and Cyndi Torres
Delves into the impacts that rising food costs are having on individuals, families and communities.
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Food Prices and Health
By Eduardo Sanchez, Judith Weinraub, Angie Tagtow, and Andrea Collier
Explains the high health tolls that come from rising food prices.
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