The Food Law Student Leadership Summit convenes law students from around the country who share a passion for creating an equitable, transparent, healthy, and sustainable food system. Food law and policy is a fast-growing field within the legal profession and society at large. The 2019 Summit will be held April 5-7th in Washington, D.C. at the Georgetown […]
The food system—from fertilizer manufacturing to production and distribution to food waste in landfills—is responsible for 25 - 30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Agriculture is also uniquely threatened by climate change. As a result, there is growing consensus that the food system—what we eat and how we grow it—requires major change in order to protect our health, […]
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 […]