This conversation will cover Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs, notably SNAP and WIC, which made up roughly 80% of the 2018 Farm Bill’s funding allocation. Buoyed by additional temporary funding through the pandemic, many nutrition assistance program recipients are facing smaller amounts of support in the coming months. As Congress considers reauthorization of the Farm Bill, experts from Duke and Syracuse will share insights from their research on potential changes to these programs, which could make them more efficient as well as reduce the food insecurity and food resource gap between White, Black and Hispanic demographic groups.
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The program aims to foster systems thinking in faculty from around the university, inviting them to explore the connections of climate change and sustainable solutions within their subject areas. Twelve faculty members have been selected for the program’s inaugural cohort, from seven of Duke’s ten schools. This summer, each teaching fellow will revise one of their existing courses to incorporate climate and sustainability, to better prepare students when they encounter these concepts in their careers.
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A longitudinal study just released in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, concludes that consumption of key nutrients of concern (total sugars, added saturated fats, sodium, and calories) significantly declined in school environments after the restrictions were implemented.
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The WFPC was awarded a new Duke University Provost’s Intellectual Community Planning grant focused on climate change, food systems, and sustainability.
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WFPC’s Jen Zuckerman will facilitate the “Cultivating Cultural Connections: Supporting Community Driven Model” panel at the March 9, 2023 Community Health Summit – The Urgency of Now: Food Equity in Durham and Wake Counties.
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I raise the morsel of bread, the host. Looking into the expectant eyes, I state: “The body of Christ, broken for you.” Laying the crumby bread into the bowl-shaped hands, I smile. For a brief moment our hands touch. Then, almost reflexively, the recipient scoops the morsel into their mouth to receive the bread of life. We share in the charity of Christ.
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The World Food Policy Center’s Norbert Wilson and Jen Zuckerman will speak in sessions at the 2023 Rural Food Forum, held in the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center, on January 12, 2023.
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Join this Council on Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics webinar to hear from distinguished panelists about how public policy can help tackle food and nutrition insecurity in the U.S.
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Duke World Food Policy Center graduate research assistant Denise Rebeil attended the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition & Health. Rebeil is a Master of Public Policy student at the Sanford School of Public Policy.
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Duke World Food Policy Center’s Jen Zuckerman and Durham’s Communities in Partnership Board Chair Candace Rashada-Mujahid will give a keynote talk on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at the 2022 Urban Food Systems Symposium in Kansas City, KS. The title of their talk is Rooted in Relationship.
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