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Where Are You Reading This? That’s Where Food System Transformation Is Happening

Food Tank

Last year, the city of Chicago launched a composting program that allows residents to drop off food scraps at 15 locations around the city, where they’re collected and turned into compost for soil. States are hearing the needs of rural communities, too. Just take food waste, for example. Or look at school meals.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

Most of my neighbors—the people actually adjacent to me—are corporate entities,” where the farm owner is often absent, and the workers don’t have a say in the equipment. In 2011, they formed an LLC with a rotating president and treasurer, supported by a $27,500 grant from the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI).

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