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.
Read MoreDuke 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.
Read MoreDuke 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.
Read MoreDuke responds to UN Special Rapporteur call for input on the impact of COVID-19 on the right to food
In its resolution 76/166 dated 16 December 2021, the UN General Assembly requested that the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food submit to its next session in 2022 a report examining the emerging issues concerning the realization of the right to food, in particular in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on food security and nutrition. In the lead up to the report, Michael Fakhri-UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food organized consultations with stakeholders to inform his subsequent report. In April, 2022, the Duke World Food Policy Center and Alison Cohen of the National Right to Food Community of Practices provided a civil society response to the UN Special Rapporteur’s survey on the right to food.
Read MoreThe WFPC’s Jennifer Zuckerman presented “Examining Whiteness in the Food System” as part of the Indiana Grown for Schools/Indiana Department of Health 2022 Webinar Series on 18, 2022.
Read MoreWhyHunger.org – Hunger relief organizations and the U.S. emergency feeding system will continuously face ongoing challenges unless systemic issues in the food system are addressed, according to a new analysis by WhyHunger—a leader in the movement to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world—and the Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center at Duke University.
Read MoreMaster of Public Policy student Kelly Jasiura explored what it would take to get more North Carolina school districts to adopt a provision that allows school to offer universal free meals to all students, regardless of their ability to pay.
Read MoreSummer Research Assistant for the Duke World Food Policy Center (WFPC) to work on projects such as the future of online groceries, inequitable funding to different types of land grant institutions, and other topics as relevant.
Read MoreThe WFPC’s Elizabeth Towel co-organized Duke’s Third Annual Campus Food Security Symposium, held on Friday, March 18, 2022.
Read MoreThe Duke World Food Policy Center’s Director of Strategic Initiatives – Jen Zuckerman – spoke at the Third Campus Food Security Symposium at Duke University, organized by the Campus Pantry Collaborative on March 18, 2022.
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