The Native Farm Bill Coalition’s 2023 agenda is food sovereignty

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ARE YOU FED UP WITH OUR CURRENT FOOD SYSTEM? YES? THEN YOU'RE INVITED! MONDAY JULY 11 AT 5:30 PM PACIFIC, ON ZOOM Register here: https://bit.ly/fed-up-2022 We're coming together as a community of young people hungry for a more just, sustainable US food system, to make our voices heard at the 2022 September White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Insights and experiences shared during the discussion—ideas for transforming how we eat, grow, buy, sell, educate about, and connect with land and with one another through food—will be documented and used to help inform the agenda of the WH Conference. Youth voices will be centered but all ages are welcome! We are very grateful to the Good Food Dialogues network for supporting this event. Do YOU or YOUR organization want to host a food dialogue? It's easy, and empowering. Get some friends together, click the Good Food Dialogues link and create an event, and post it! After your event, the platform will help you collect the insights of your discussion and transmit them directly to the White House halls of power. Our food system isn't "broken." It was built this way.  We need change now. FARM BILL ADVOCACY SPOTLIGHT Each unBox newsletter leading up to the 2023 Farm Bill will spotlight an organization pushing for a more just, sustainable Farm Bill, and list ways to support their work. The Native Farm Bill Coalition The NFBC is a collective of 270 member organizations. Formed in 2017, they worked to include 63 provision to support tribal communities in the 2018 Farm Bill.   Read about how NFBC is pushing for recognition of traditional ecological knowledge in sustainable agriculture in the 2023 Farm Bill (The Nation) and for expanded and more equitable food security programs for tribes (Civil Eats). Support NFBC by joining the coalition, attending their public events, and researching the member organizations active in your area and donating your money and/or time to support their work. Gearing up for 2023, the NFBC Farm Bill priorities include: Recognition of traditional, ecological, knowledge-based conservation Expansion of Tribal food assistance programs, and the ability for Tribes to administer programs themselves through 638 Authority More traditional/Tribally-purchased foods allowed in food security programs Electrification Research grants for Tribal Colleges and Universities Transfer of lands back to Tribal nations through the forestry title Renewable energy grants Protecting Tribal seeds and traditional foods   Our unBox newsletter hit 333 subscribers! Thank you so much for support and readership. Y'all are the real ones 🤍  Urge your foodie friends to subscribe with this link! unBox hosted a White House Dialogue in Cambridge, MA on June 27! We came together as fourteen young people—students, growers, grocery coop employees, amateur agroecologists, SNAP participants, activists, cooks, and eaters—and co-envisioned a more just future US food system. We are working with Good Food Dialogues to elevate the feedback we collectively documented up to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health!   Read our recent unBox paper on SNAP online delivery access in California! Disparities in SNAP online grocery delivery and implementation: Lessons learned from California during the 2020-21 COVID pandemic.  Published in Health & Place by Isabelle Foster, Samantha Liu, Charlie Hoffs, Christopher LeBoa, Andy Chen, and Pasqualle Rummo unBox advisor Shawna Beese and colleagues published a paper on SNAP online delivery access in Washington! Expansion of Grocery Delivery and Access for Washington SNAP Participants During the COVID-19 Pandemic Published in Preventing Chronic Disease by Beese S, Amram O, Corylus A, Graves JM, Postma J, Monsivais P.    Great Reads The Atlantic: The 12 Most Unforgettable Descriptions of Food in Literature The Washington Post: Congress extends pandemic-era school meal program, with caveats. By the way, CA, ME,VT and NV remain the only states that have approved state funding for continued free school meals.  Yahoo Finance: What to Do When the SNAP Emergency Allotment Ends In Your State Transport Topics: Biden to Devote $2.1 Billion to Strengthen Food Supply Chain The Fern: Big Tech’s food-delivery apps face a grassroots revolt CBPP: For LGBTQ People, Recent Anti-Discrimination Advances Could Lessen Barrier to Economic Inclusion CBPP: Infant Formula Shortage Highlights WIC’s Critical Role in Feeding Babies Civil Eats: How the Cooperative Food Movement Is Evolving Civil Eats: Op-ed: With Food Prices on the Rise, Is a ‘Bean New Deal’ the Answer? NOSH: El Cerrito resident grows exotic fruit in his own backyard, and maybe yours, too The Urban Institute: Does SNAP Cover the Cost of a Meal in Your County? The Urban Institute: The Majority of Adults Support Permanent, Free School Meals for All The Messenger: USDA approved grant for mobile payment options for WIC program Tools Check out this incredible resource from unBox community members Jim Lesch and Joel LaFrance at Basketful! Type in your zipcode and find where infant formula is in-stock nearby, amidst today's nationwide price increases and shortages: https://www.basketful.co/infantformula  For advocates: CSPI's Leveraging SNAP to improve public health toolkit Want to host a dialogue to help inform the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health? Convene a conversation with the Good Food Dialogues platform! New Research + Data The compendium of final papers presented at Yale Law School's Reforming American's Food Retail Conference has been published, featuring our unBox paper: "Exploring Consumer Data Privacy & Retailer Competition within the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Online Purchasing Pilot" p. 122-134! George C, and Tomer, A. Delivering to deserts: New data reveals the geography of digital access to food in the U.S. Brookings. May 2022. Andreyeva T, Marple K, Moore T, Powell L. Evaluation of Economic and Health Outcomes Associated With Food Taxes and Subsidies.JAMA. June 2022. Caspi C, Gordon N, Barsness C, Bohen L, Canterbury M, Peterson H, Wolfson J, Pratt R. A randomized study of food pantry environment-level change following the SuperShelf intervention. Translational Behavioral Medicine. June 2022. Payan D, Perez-Lua F, Goldman-Mellor S, De Trinidad Young M. Rural Household Food Insecurity among Latino Immigrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nutrients. July 2022. Knox C, Miller S. Sustainability outcomes of the United States food system. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. May 2022 Babcock A, Budowle R. An appreciative inquiry and inventory of Indigenous food sovereignty initiatives within the western U.S.Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. March 2022. Gosliner W, Hewawitharana S, Strochlic R, Felix C, Long C. The California Nutrition Incentive Program: Participants’ Perceptions and Associations with Produce Purchases, Consumption, and Food Security. Nutrients. June 2022. Marriot J, Flechtner L, Birk N, Taitelbaum D, Odoms-Young A, Wilson N, Clay L, Zack R. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Food Pantry Use and Barriers in Massachusetts during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nutrients. June 2022. Nugent N, Ridberg R, Fricke H, Shanks C, Stotx S, Chung A, Shin S, Yaroch A, Akers M, Lowe R, George C, Thomas K, Seligman H.Food sovereignty, health, and produce prescription programs: A case study in two rural tribal communities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. June 2022. Ridberg R, Levi R, Marpadga S, Akers M, Tancredi D, Seligman H. Additional Fruit and Vegetable Vouchers for Pregnant WIC Clients: An Equity-Focused Strategy to Improve Food Security and Diet Quality. Nutrients. May 2022. Wolfson J, Posluszny H, Kronsteiner-Gicevics, Willet W, Leung C. Food Insecurity and Less Frequency Cooking Dinner at Home Are Associated with Lower Diet Quality in National Sample of Low-Income Adults in the United State during the Initial Months of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. May 2022. Jordan W. Jones, Saied Toossi, and Leslie Hodges. The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Report. USDA ERS. June 2022.  Opportunities Job opportunities Berkeley Student Farms: Student Urban Agroecology & Finance Assistant - Apply by July 25! Berkeley Food Institute: Undergraduate Agricultural Labor Research Fellow and Student Communications Assistant - Apply by July 25! Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders: Finance Associate (Apply by July 10) and Public Policy Associate (Apply by August 10) California Food as Medicine Coalition: Director (Apply by July 13) National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: Policy Fellow (Apply by July 19) International Food Policy Research Institute: Intern National Farm to School Network: Communications Intern University of California Nutrition Policy Institute: Graduate Student Communications Fellow FRAC: SNAP Intern Potlikker Capital: Underwriting and Research Intern Foodwise: Education Manager - Foodwise Teens Presentation opportunities Apply by July 13 to present virtually in August at the HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series for Students Student Presentation and Poster Session Use this form to submit content for us to add to this monthly newsletter! unBox stands against systemic racism and violence and is striving to become an antiracist organization. Want to learn more & get involved? Get unBox'ed! 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