Food Politics

JULY 13, 2023

The World Health Organization has just come out with a new report on protecting children from the harms of marketing unhealthy food to kids. Reductions in the power of food marketing were more often found with: mandatory policies; and policies designed to restrict food marketing to children, including those older than 12 years.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 9, 2024

For example, We use the term monopoly to describe a market with just one seller and the less common term monopsony when there is just one buyer. The two are symmetrical, so both kinds of market power are sometimes called monopoly power. The persistence of family farming is among the most surprising facts about the economics of food.

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Food Politics

JULY 12, 2024

IPES Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) has a new report, Food From Somewhere: Building food security and resilience through territorial markets. The report argues that territorial food systems are better able to promote food security than industrial food systems.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 6, 2024

USDA has proclaimed August 4 – 10 as National Farmers Market Week. I love farmers markets and I’m glad USDA is trying to promote them. USDA publishes a directory of US farmers markets—7,033 listings. Farmers markets are well worth support. The Farmers Market Coalition provides resources and toolkits.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Exports remain critical for food security and maximizing the value of surplus ag production in the U.S., Exports remain critical for food security and maximizing the value of surplus ag production in the U.S., The demise of global trade as politicians push protectionist policies is overstated, says the head of the U.S. Read More

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2024

food system, we’ve seen firsthand how complex, often sobering stories about challenges in food and farming come to life when they include real people trying to fix problems at the local level. Climate change, environmental health issues, and food access are foremost among those challenges.

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Food Politics

JULY 12, 2023

My distant (but dearly loved) cousin, the food package designer Michael Kravit , thought I would enjoy seeing this example of first-rate food marketing—and of a healthy product yet. The post The latest in food marketing: an easy-to-eat healthy snack appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Food Politics

APRIL 9, 2025

What unlikely social factors are shaping the candy market? Today, Governor Patrick Morrisey signed House Bill 2354 into law, which prohibits certain harmful food dyes in school lunches and unhealthy food items for sale in West Virginia. [ How Prevalent Are Dyes in Foods? And its food dyes? We Crunched the Numbers.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 3, 2024

While diabetes and obesity rates in America soar, the food and beverage industry spends billions on advertising to get consumers, including young children, hooked on their unhealthy products. Banning junk food ads targeted at kids. It’s way past time to take on the food industry’s manipulative marketing practices.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This one is especially worth sharing: Talking Points: Anti-obesity medicationsWill the food industry be the biggest loser? It has been oer a year since the food industry finally woke up to the threats and opportunities of the new class of Anti-Obesity Medications (AOMs) such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound.

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Food Politics

JUNE 27, 2023

Last week, I attended and spoke at the UNICEF-WHO Global Congress on Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes at WHO headquarters in Geneva. Breastfeeding is easier when formula marketing is controlled.y Representatives of infant formula companies were not invited to participate.

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Food Politics

APRIL 26, 2024

An investigative report from Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN): “How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries.” Nestlé’s leading baby-food brands, promoted in low- and middle-income countries as healthy and key to supporting young children’s development, contain high levels of added sugar.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Photo credit: USDA The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has promoted the sale of foods locally for over two decades via business and community investments made by Value-Added Producer Grants , Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Grants , and most recently Regional Food System Partnership grants.

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Food Politics

APRIL 19, 2024

In the Atlantic (to which I subscribe), Eric Schlosser writes: Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? Mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated, unfair, and even dangerous. Prices are up and executive compensation even more so. We all need to pay close attention.

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Food Politics

MARCH 22, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry. Frerick structures the chapters to describe the rise of the families’ fortunes, how they exploited rules and customs, and how that got government to collude in giving these companies so much market share and power. Austin Frerick. Island Press, 2024.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While we are at it, my daughter sent this photo from the new It’s Sugar store on Market Street in San Francisco. The post Annals of marketing: is “not healthy” the latest trend? appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. Let’s give these companies high marks for truth in advertising. Caveat emptor.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Northeast Regional Food Business Center is pleased to award $2 million in sub-award funding to 17 technical assistance provider organizations across the Northeast. These networks will offer professional development and training, along with fostering collaboration among providers by industry, market or geographic area.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 19, 2025

The companys mission is to help the world grow the food it needs, says director of new product Read More Agriculture is forever evolving and so is the business of fertilizer and crop nutrition. The companys mission is to help the world grow the food it needs, says director of new product Read More

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 22, 2025

Through food, residents who have lost everything are finding sustenance for body and soul, and hospitality workers are collaborating to help the best way they know how. All donations will be used to purchase local produce from small farmers who are deeply affected by the fires, says Rafaela Gass, the market manager and owner.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Food Safety News reports: The applesauce, sold in pouches packaged for children, has been found to have a lead content of 5110 parts per million (ppm) and 2270 ppm. The FDA has proposed action levels for lead in foods, but these are neither final nor implemented. By industry, I’m assuming he means baby food and I could not agree more.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 16, 2024

Pulse crop and plant-based food ingredient company Global Food and Ingredients Ltd. based company bought and marketed peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas and other high-protein specialty crops, operating three handling facilities at Lajord, Sedley, and Zealandia, Sask., The Toronto, Ont.-based

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million to further develop the National Index on Agri-Food Performance. A pilot version of the index, which was designed to measure and support marketing around the sustainability of food produced in Canada, was launched in May 2023. As of early 2024, the Centre for Agri-Food Benchmarking, led by executive. Read More

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Food Tank is highlighting 20 books for young readers that will inspire them to think more deeply about food. These activity books, cookbooks, and stories celebrate diverse foodways and farming practices from across the world, uplift the power of community, and celebrate all that pollinators do for global food and farming systems.

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Food Politics

MARCH 6, 2025

The Super Bowl may be about football but it is also very much about food, as this image shows. And here are a few items about all that food: Super Bowl snacking: Facts, figures and fan favourites: The Super Bowl isnt just about touchdowns and halftime shows; its also one of the biggest food consumption events of the year.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

At the recent Food Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Development (FEED) Summit in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aspiring and new food entrepreneurs came together to address common roadblocks and to share strategies for adding value to small food businesses. This makes entrepreneurs’ needs easy to identify.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

farms producing food for consumption has been steadily declining for years, making us more reliant on other countries as we resort to importing necessary foods. We need Congress to reevaluate the subsidies provided to big ag, and prioritize farmers growing and raising nutritious food for our nation. Whos gonna grow our food?

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Food Politics

JULY 7, 2023

UNICEF does not want its statements to be compromised by conflicted interests with food and beverage companies that make formula or foods for children. Here’s how UNICEF will be dealing with the food and beverage interests. Avoid all partnerships with ultra-processed food and beverage (UPF) industries.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Last fall, Ava Taesali opened Kava Queen , Oahus only brick-and-mortar kava bar, after three years of building a loyal following for this traditional beverage at farmers markets in Honolulu. This designation helps sustain Native culture, reassure public health, and encourage state food sovereignty. Despite these findings, the U.S.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 7, 2025

The nonprofit Michigan Fitness Foundation (MFF) is working to connect families in Michigan facing food insecurity with local farms, strengthen local food systems and build community. Participation in the program does create extra steps for food producers. But Hayward believes that its worth the effort for many farmers.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 31, 2023

At one point I must have owned three, because here is an illustration from my book, Food Politics, published in 2002. The post The Food Politics of—Barbie! The post The Food Politics of—Barbie! appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. The Oreo purse is a nice touch.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 16, 2024

If the merger had been allowed, the combined company would have become the second-largest grocery chain in the United States, controlling 22 percent of the grocery market , according to the organization Food and Water Watch. “This victory has a direct, tangible impact on the lives of millions of Americans. .

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 7, 2025

The facility, which Ingredion acquired with its takeover of Verdient Foods Inc. The facility, which Ingredion acquired with its takeover of Verdient Foods Inc. Ingredion Incorporated says it is ceasing operations at its pulse crop processing facility at Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, as of this week. 6, 2025 filing with the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Brezzell said the farm and design firm’s mission is to be a resource to the community, helping Detroiters achieve food sovereignty by providing fresh, accessible food, some at no cost. The team develops pop-up farmers markets, garden beds and community gardens to increase green spaces around Detroit.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Farmers and ranchers are encountering tremendous pressures under high input costs, elevated interest costs, deeply depressed commodity futures markets and poor local cash markets. NASDA enhances American food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement. territories. territories.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This group is calling for regulation of unhealthy ultra-processed foods. This new report gives examples of food product ads , (50 of them) by method of appeal along with what information is concealed. The post Weekend reading: food advertising analysis—from India! appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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NASDA

MARCH 24, 2025

The Maryland Food Center Authority (MFCA) is seeking an Executive Director to oversee its operations, including wholesale produce and seafood markets. Apply by April 8, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.

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