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  • National round-up: The secret(s) to sustainable urban farms

    September 04, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Urban farms across the country are incorporating creative strategies to make farms sustainable. Farms in Cleveland are teaching refugees to engage in agriculture as a way to adapt to their new community, while one farm in Michigan provides mentorship to other farmers looking to be successful from a business perspective. In order to make fresh produce accessible year-round, these creative ideas are helping meet the needs of farmers and consumers.

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  • Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future

    August 10, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.

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  • FDA's ‘terrible policy error' blocks simple step to prevent fatal birth defects

    July 11, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Provo, Utah

    The life-saving vitamin folic acid is added to flour in the United States, but Hispanics tend to eat little flour. Adding folic acid to corn flour would reduce birth defects in Hispanic women in the U.S.

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  • Paying People to Be Healthy Usually Works, if the Public Can Stomach It

    July 06, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Many Americans have unhealthy habits which increase their likelihood of getting sick at the cost of taxpayer dollars. Paying people to drop their unhealthy habits has been proven to be an effective way to keep people healthy and save taxpayer dollars.

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  • Closing the Broccoli Gap

    June 05, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The lack of access to healthy food has always been a problem for the financially unstable. Food stamps can now be used to buy fresh produce at farmers markets, but greater success could be achieved by getting grocery stores involved.

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  • Tackling obesity for 'the body of Christ': a Mississippi pastor's healthy mission

    May 28, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Healthcare professionals have learned that weight loss efforts can be much more effective when led by a trusted guide – and that person may not be a doctor. A neighborhood church assumes responsibility for keeping their parishioners healthy.

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  • To Feed More, Food Pantries Learn From Supermarkets

    May 22, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Even with all available help, New Yorkers miss about 100 million meals each year - food stamps are not enough. But some New York food banks allow for the homeless to choose their own food products, making healthy choices easier.

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  • How to grow food in a slum: lessons from the sack farmers of Kibera

    May 18, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi Area

    A Kenyan government initiative is helping a growing community of residents to tackle food insecurity in one of the largest slum areas in Africa, championing an unusual form of urban farming: sack gardens.

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  • Why A Philadelphia Grocery Chain Is Thriving In Food Deserts

    May 14, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Brown's Super Stores operates seven profitable supermarkets in traditionally food desert neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The founder says it's because they brought together a group of community leaders and asked them exactly what they were looking for in a neighborhood grocery store, and used the information to truly create a space for the broader community that often includes health care clinics, banking services, event space, and more.

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  • This Iraqi couple fled ISIS but face another enemy in the US — diabetes

    May 08, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Diabetes hits US immigrant communities especially hard, with genetics and higher-calorie diets explaining just part of it. Support groups help immigrants with diabetes to find a way to eat healthy in the American high-calorie system.

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