This panel brings together three leading food system advocates to examine the Green New Deal and the future of food. They will propose ways to strengthen the current plan, while also exploring its potential to create a new coalition in rural America focused on the fight for economic, environmental, and racial justice. PANELISTS: Peter Lehner, […]
Food may contain a number of intended (e.g., ingredients) and unintended (e.g., pathogenic or spoilage microbes) substances. These have implications for safety and quality that may in turn result in our tendency to waste food. Cameron Faustman, UConn professor and visiting scholar at the Food Law and Policy Clinic this semester, will provide a brief […]
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REGISTER TO ATTEND Wed, October 16, 2019 | 6-8PM | Harvard Law School, Austin Hall North Black farmers owned over 16 million acres of land in 1910, a time when black families owned “the largest amount of property they would ever own in the United States,” according to one scholar. These farmers were […]
Click here register to attend Fri, October 18, 2019| 8:45 AM – 11:00 AM ET | Cannon House Office Building, Room 421, 27 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003 Although diet and nutrition are fundamental to addressing today’s most common and costly health conditions, US physicians receive minimal nutrition education in medical school, and typically […]
Please join the HLS Mississippi Delta Project for our annual Delta Celebration. We’ll be joined by Dr. Kecia Johnson, Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University and Co-Director of the Mississippi Food Insecurity Project. Lunch served! Dr. Johnson's presentation will provide a conceptual framework for understanding how individuals with a felony drug conviction may be at […]
Join us for this annual celebration of the work students and faculty from HLS and other Harvard University schools are doing to improve health, economic, and social conditions in the Mississippi Delta. The event is open to anyone from the Harvard community – from those who have worked in the region to those who are simply interested […]
Thursday, March 23: Evening Kickoff Event on Black Land Loss and Reparations Location: Harvard Law School Presentations addressing Black land loss problems and solutions, followed by a roundtable discussion, Q&A and reception. Friday March 24: All-day Conference Location: Boston College Law School Keynote speaker: George C. Fatheree III, attorney in the landmark Bruce’s Beach case, a […]
The HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic, Office of Public Interest Advising, and Food Law Society invite you to attend Advancing the Right to Adequate Food: Working as a Lawyer at the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, a conversation with Manuela Cuvi Rodriguez LLM ’03. Manuela will share her insight on the human right to […]