Food loss and waste and food insecurity are parallel issues emerging as some of the greatest food system challenges today. While an estimated one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, more than 735 million people around the world are hungry and 11 percent are severely food insecure. Scaling food donation, which […]
The second annual Harvard Climate Action Week, hosted by the Climate Action Accelerator at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University, will encompass five days of events on Harvard’s campus and online, from June 10-14, 2024 On June 11, join experts to discuss "How Cities are Leveraging the Food System to Advance Climate […]
Join FLPC Faculty Director Emily Broad Leib on May 22nd as she features in a Webinar on exploring child nutrition policy in School Food Systems! Delve into the landscape of child nutrition policy in school food systems. The webinar will examine the impact of current policies, related challenges, and strategies to enhance child nutrition in […]
Food loss and waste and food insecurity are parallel issues emerging as some of the greatest food system challenges today. While an estimated one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, more than 735 million people around the world are hungry and 11 percent are severely food insecure. Scaling food donation, which […]
Food loss and waste (FLW) and food insecurity are parallel issues emerging as some of the greatest food system challenges faced today and, as such, are increasingly policy priorities for governments around the world. While an estimated one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, more than 820 million people are undernourished […]
Boston University School of Law is hosting a film screening and panel discussion for The Smell of Money, which documents food injustices experienced by a rural minority community in North Carolina. Following the film screening, there will be a moderated discussion on environmental ethics, animal rights, public health, and corporate social responsibility moderated by Dr. Tyson-Lord Gray. The discussion […]
In 2019, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan declared that the government's inaction in implementing laws and policies to mitigate food loss and waste violated the Constitutional right to food. Join us as we hear from a petitioner in the case, Hafsa Ahmad (LLM '24), the barrister who argued the case, Muhammad Ahmad Pansota, and […]
Have you ordered food online lately? Join our conversation with a panel of international experts on the evolving food e-commerce landscape and how governments are (or are not) choosing to regulate it. Experts include: Dr. Pinghui Xiao, HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic Visiting Scholar and Senior Lecturer at Guangzhou University. MJ Plana Casado, PhD. […]
The Food Law and Policy Clinic recently published More Than CAFOs and Corn, a comprehensive statistical analysis of Midwestern agriculture. The 167-page report includes new data on BIPOC farmers, farmworkers, and environmental outcomes, among other pressing issues, in the six-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Join the two authors, Nathan Rosenberg and […]
Harvard Law School Association of Europe will hold its Fourth Digital Day 2024 on March 7-8, 2024. The theme for this year's event is, "Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus and its socio-economic implications: What lies ahead?" Faculty Director Emily Broad Leib will speak at the event. Learn more about the event and register: https://europe.hlsa.org/article.html?aid=226
