Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

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Beal served on panel for Seafood Throwdown at Maine Fare 2015

Maine Fare 2015 and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance will present a Seafood Throwdow. In this Iron Chef-like event, Chefs Michele Levesque of El El Frijoles in Sargentville and Tom Sigler of Comida in Rockland will have an hour to cook a mystery fish; they will each be supplied with a box of local produce and pantry staples, and are allowed to bring three of their favorite ingredients.
July 29, 2015
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Hoover featured for 'engaged scholarship' partnering with the community

In high school, Professor Elizabeth Hoover wanted to be a farmer. Instead, she became an anthropologist who studies the relationships between farming, environmental contamination and food. This story is part of "Learning and Doing" - a series on engaged scholarship at Brown University that tells the stories of faculty and students partnering with the community to advance scholarship and benefit the world beyond Brown.
July 29, 2015
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Mountjoy on farm-level view of supply chain water risk

“The longer the supply chain, the weaker the connection between the farmer’s management information and the ultimate consumer,” said Daniel Mountjoy of Sustainable Conservation, which led a recent tour of [Chris] Willoughby’s fields. Inexact water use data is more of a problem in fragmented supply chains such as Willoughby’s, where each link acts independently and contracts are subject to change. Read more
June 30, 2015
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Alicia Harley

2015 Fellow
I am a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard College. I received my PhD in Public Policy from...
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Joshua Stoll

2015 Fellow
Joshua is an assistant professor of marine policy in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. His research focuses on the human dimensions of marine systems and how social-ecological dynamics shape and are shaped by formal...
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Klein quoted on possibility USDA will include sustainability in dietary guidelines

Kendra Klein, senior program associate for Physicians for Social Responsibility, said her group has been “excited and very hopeful” that the USDA start addressing diet’s influence on the environment — in terms of carbon emissions and in terms of pesticide and land use.
May 25, 2015
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Gallardo wins $25K Sabin prize for cricket protein powder idea

“Many of the leading figures of social entrepreneurship have been affiliated with Yale,” Klein said. “It’s a more recent tradition … but it’s a tradition we are proud of.” Many students hope not only to develop a business but also to do something for the greater good, said Stuart DeCew FES ’11 SOM ’11, program director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, which runs the Sabin Sustainable Venture.
May 25, 2015
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How tech can stop the looming food crisis

Start by developing technologies that reduce all the wasted food out there.
May 11, 2015
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Bacon part of team to receive coffee sustainability award

Santa Cruz-based Community Agroecology Network’s (CAN) Food Security & Sovereignty in Las Segovias, Nicaragua project was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Specialty Coffee Association of America Sustainability Award. Read more
May 8, 2015
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Bunin quoted on USDA's plans to propose standards for organic seafood

Some environmental groups criticize the recommendations for suggesting that at first a quarter of the fish feed could be from sustainably wild-caught — but not organic — fish. A fish can't be organic, they argue, if it doesn't eat 100 percent organic feed. Wild fish would not be eligible for the organic label — that would be too difficult to monitor. The environmental groups also are concerned that fish in ocean pens would be able to escape and contaminate their surroundings. They also worry about ocean contaminants.
May 8, 2015