The Center for Good Food Purchasing and project partners Fullwell (formerly the Food & Agriculture team of SPUR), Community Alliance with Family Farmers, and Los Angeles Food Policy Council officially have kicked off the [...]
Investing in a Good Food Future Paula Daniels and Alexa Delwiche Medium As we look ahead to re-open the country post-COVID, we also have the chance to re-work our public [...]
Future Policy Award 2018 crowns best policies on agroecology and sustainable food systems The “100% organic state” Sikkim in India wins Gold. Policies from Brazil, Denmark and Ecuador honoured with Silver Awards Hamburg/Rome, 12 October [...]
Champions in supporting agroecological approaches: Shortlist of Future Policy Award 2018 out now Best policies promoting agroecological approaches shortlisted for international award include candidates from Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, India, the Philippines, Senegal, the United States [...]
Idea We Should Steal: Buying Better Food Jill Harkins The Philadelphia Citizen The LA-based Center for Good Food Purchasing helps districts and governments lead the way in buying healthy food. [...]
Chicken nearly disappeared from L.A. school lunches. Now, it's making a comeback Howard Blume L.A. Times For more than a year, one of the foods Los Angeles students like best has been all but [...]
Good Food Rising Center for Good Food Purchasing Staff Good Food Rising, a cocktail reception and panel discussion co-hosted by Real Food Media, the Center for Good Food Purchasing and Food Chain Workers [...]
How One Groundbreaking Set of Rules is Changing the Food in L.A. Schools and the System Behind It Leilani Clark Civil Eats Daniel Blackwood has witnessed a couple of big changes since he started [...]
Tracking the Ripple Effects of LA’s Good Food Purchasing Program Alexis Stephens Policy Link In 2012, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) — the largest school district in the nation — shifted its [...]
Shaping food policy from the ground up Mark Winne Lexicon of Food “…no famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.” - Amartya Sen The older [...]
L.A. Unified to ban the purchase of chicken raised with antibiotics Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times Aiming to bolster student health, Los Angeles Unified and five other major urban school districts announced plans Tuesday [...]
Can the Foodie Trend Also Help Food Workers? Michelle Chen The Nation What your community eats is based on what feeds into your social system. In Los Angeles, on one end of the [...]
