The modern industrial food systems that evolved to serve the growing global population with an emphasis on corporate profitability over human and environmental health has left consequential economic, environmental and social impacts. There is an increased need to analyze and address the negative effects and develop long-term solutions that will nurture communities and regenerate natural resources through the food system. The majority of the current...

In a world of ever rising energy costs it is becoming increasingly prudent that we begin to assess the role that energy plays in our food system. Transparency in our production systems, paired with additional research, will help us to map energy use and better understand the true cost of our current means of subsistence. Reliability will inherently increase with an increase in energy data. The Diet Dashboard attempts to increase visibility and accountability...

The hypothesis of this project is that the lack of local meat in Nevada's food system is due to the absence of meat processing facilities. To prove or disprove my hypothesis on whether gaining more full-service slaughterhouses would entice ranchers and farmers to slaughter their livestock in the state rather than exporting them research was conducted with three main parameters: 1) Local Food, 2) Nevada Agriculture, 3) Livestock for Nevadan Markets....

As cities in the United States seek to understand their local and regional food systems, reliable data and those food systems become more and more important. Cities and food policy councils across the United States collection, analyze, and publish food systems data. There are widely varying ways of doing this, and widely varying sets of collected data. Data visualizations enable people to tell stories, which help decision-makers, governments, and...

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Dairy and Vermont are synonymous. For more than a century, dairy farming has shaped Vermont's economy, ecology, and culture. Thousands of hardworking family operations gave rise to its modern, multi-billion-dollar industry. Dairying is arduous, labor-intensive work, with thin profit margins. Today, to keep operations afloat financially, more and more dairy owners employ undocumented migrant workers, mostly from Mexico, to dampen expenses and control...

This drama takes you into the world of Troy Maxson, former baseball player with the Negro leagues. Troy is now a garbage man who feels his life has been hemmed in by others, but as the story unfolds he is forced to confront his role in the building of his life's fences.

Discover how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow the food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book.