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H.R.4971 - Greening Food Deserts Act
To increase the emphasis on urban agricultural issues in the Department of Agriculture through the establishment of a new office to ensure that Department authorities are used to effectively encourage local agricultural production and increase the availability of fresh food in urban areas, particularly underserved communities experiencing hunger, poor nutrition, obesity, and food insecurity, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Greening Food Deserts Act as introduced.
- Official: To increase the emphasis on urban agricultural issues in the Department of Agriculture through the establishment of a new office to ensure that Department authorities are used to effectively encourage local agricultural production and increase the availability of fresh food in urban areas, particularly underserved communities experiencing hunger, poor nutrition, obesity, and food insecurity, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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Read and ask your ask your Representative to support HR 4971 Greening Food Deserts Act, which will support projects that provide access to healthy food. You can also 'vote' on it here. 2. Have a garden? Think of donating some of your ...
A Federal Bill to Green Urban Food Deserts | Urban Farm Hub
What HR 4971 proposes to do is to create an office under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) focused on strengthening U.S. agriculture by diversifying U.S. food production – moving from reliance on globally consolidated and ...
Greening US food deserts through local agriculture
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) introduced HR 4971, the Greening Urban Food Deserts Act. The act would establish a new office in the Department of Agriculture to help increase local agricultural production and fresh food availability especially in ...
Camas Permaculture: Food System Council
Contact your U. S. Representative and ask that they become a cosponsor of and support: H.R. 4971: Greening Food Deserts Act H.R. 4607: Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act of 2010. Posted by Tom Gibson at 5:47 PM ...
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They're pushing for a bill in Congress (HR 4971) to create an Office of Urban Agriculture within the US Department of Agriculture to make sure that urban farmers get a cut of the agency's $146 billion budget. Closer to home, in Salem, ...
Economic Issues for Hispanic Americans
The Greening of Food Deserts Act, or HR 4971, is vital toward our battle against obesity. In general, it aims to increase an emphasis on urban agriculture within the US Department of Agriculture by promoting local agricultural ...
Made in Pahrump: CHICKEN REVIVAL | City-dwelling poultry lovers ...
They're pushing for a bill in Congress (H.R. 4971) to create an Office of Urban Agriculture within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make sure that urban farmers get a cut of the agency's $146 billion budget. ...
Support a USDA Office of Urban Agriculture — Climate Today
The Greening Food Deserts Act, H.R. 4971 proposes the establishment of an office of urban agriculture in the USDA. The act is “to effectively encourage local agricultural production and increase the availability of fresh food in urban ...
H.R. 4971: Greening Food Deserts Act Introduced to US Congress ...
tags: Congress, food, food access, food insecurity, fresh, government, Greening Food Deserts Act, H.R. 4971, hunger, legislation, nutrition, obesity, United States, urban, Urban Agriculture. by Robin Reichhardt. On March 25th, US Rep. ...
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Support a USDA Office of Urban Agriculture - Allow me to introduce you to the Greening Food Deserts Act, H.R. 4971, which proposes the establishment of an office of urban agriculture in the USDA. In.. ...
Support a USDA Office of Urban Agriculture | Sustainable Food ...
Allow me to introduce you to the Greening Food Deserts Act, HR 4971, which proposes the establishment of an office of urban agriculture in the USDA. In the early stages of the legislative process... Read more of this post, ...
TEFAP Alliance Blog » Foodlinks America - April 9, 2010
H.R. 4971: Introduced by Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and 23 co-sponsors, the Greening Food Deserts Act would establish an Office of Urban Agriculture, extend and expand the Senior Farmer' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), ...
Cooking Up a Healthy Food System
A federal bill on ”Greening Food Deserts” was also recently introduced (HR 4971). This is 1 + 1 +1, and the “equals something more” (ie, the change we seek) feels like it is emerging. This NJ, PA, NY cohort is already serving appetizers ...
Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Seed Sprout Root
... Read @theslowcook A Teacher Crusades for Better School Food and Gets Stomped http://bit.ly/9ErgUK Go 3 hours ago; RT @LocavoreBlog: Rep. Marcy Kaptur Urban Ag: H.R. 4971: Greening Food Deserts Act http://bit.ly/ci1vCi Go 2010/04/05 ...
The Back Forty » Twenty-four Gold Stars
H.R. 4971, the Greening Food Deserts Act, was filed March 25 with 23 co-sponsors. It's now on the docket of both the Education and Labor and Agriculture committees, each to hear the part of the bill that comes under its jurisdiction. ...
Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Profiling Women Changing the Way We ...
Marcy Kaptur Urban Ag: H.R. 4971: Greening Food Deserts Act http://bit.ly/ci1vCi Go 10 hours ago; School lunch debate is in session @USAToday http://bit.ly/9cO0No Go 11 hours ago; Healthy, and Safe, School Lunches @NYTimes editorial ...
Michelle Obama takes on obesity (UPDATE) « Obama and the Issues
UPDATE: Jill Richardson, of the food policy blog La Vida Locavore has published the details of a new House bill (officially named HR 4971: Greening Food Deserts Act) aimed at encouraging local food production and increasing access to ...
Farmer Jane: An Office of Urban Ag in the USDA?
HR 4971 may sound like the next version of swine flu, but really, it's the new "Greening Food Deserts Act," and a testimony that sustainable food and farming systems have hit the White House full-force. There's a great write up about it .
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HR 4971 – March 25, 2010 To increase the emphasis on urban agricultural issues in the Department of Agriculture through the establishment of a new office to ensure that Department authorities are used to effectively encourage local ...
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Marcy Kaptur [D-OH9] introduced HR 4971: To increase the emphasis on urban agricultural issues in the Department of Agriculture through the establishment of a new office to ensure that Department authorities are used to effectively ...
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