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Health Equity

Online video can revolutionize the way families feed their children By Nicole Betancourt Posted September 24, 2010 ParentEarth.com serves up the best videos about food for parents and kids.	Real Food, Real Choice By Andy Fisher Posted August 2, 2010 This week is National Farmers Market Week, but there is one group that has been historically excluded from the benefits of farmers markets: food stamp recipients.	Introducing FoodCorps By Curt Ellis Posted July 22, 2010 The vision for FoodCorps is to recruit young adults for a yearlong term of public service in school food systems.	Teach Your Veggies: Five Tips for Better Eating Through Gardening with Kids By Lisa Kivirist Posted July 20, 2010 After eight years of gardening with her son Liam at their Wisconsin farm and bed and breakfast, Lisa Kivirist has found that kids will eat anything they have a connection to growing or harvesting themselves.
Report Finds Farmers Markets Face Barriers In Connecting Farmers and Low-income Shoppers Posted July 15, 2010 Sweeping yearlong examination of farmers markets nationally finds economic, social and technological roadblocks for SNAP recipients	Yes, Rush Limbaugh, Children Go Hungry in America By Mark Muller Posted June 18, 2010 Rush Limbaugh, that beacon of healthy eating, seems to be leading a charge against providing kids with healthy meals	The Challenge of Reducing Children's Exposure to Toxics By Mark Muller Posted June 1, 2010 Nicole Betancourt's letter to the editor in Time Magazine expresses the frustration that parents feel trying to do something about the prevalence of carcinogens in the lives of children.	Let's Move Child Nutrition By Debra Eschmeyer Posted May 27, 2010 It is great to see the Administration embracing proven strategies for healthy children and communities, as outlined in the recently released White House Childhood Obesity Report. However, as Michelle Obama said, "Our work has only just begun."
Getting Veggies to our Kids: The Latest Videos from Parent Earth Posted May 11, 2010	Food Corps Shovel Ready Posted April 26, 2010 Food Corps, a project of the National Farm to School Network, will recruit young adults for a yearlong term of public service in school food systems.	Almuerzo Escolar: Can School Lunch be Revolutionized? By Debra Eschmeyer Posted April 23, 2010 Fidel-ity to Farm-to-School: Deb Eschmeyer investigates whether Castro is feeding school kids better than Obama	Live From the White House Childhood Obesity Summit By Debra Eschmeyer Posted April 15, 2010 Deb Eschmeyer reports from the White House Childhood Obesity Summit

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Cultivating Leadership and Equity in the Food Movement

April 2013

The IATP Food and Community Fellows Program is coming to an end, but it's springtime for our work growing equity in the food system and cultivating diverse leadership in the movement.

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Movement Building Growing Food Food Workers Children's Health and Well-being Food Policy Food and Culture Health Equity Community Economic Development

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