Farm Aid aims to educate on healthy food
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John Mellencamp never figured Farm Aid would still be needed now, 21 years after its debut as one of many moments of musicians trying to do good in the 1980s. "We thought we'd have the concert and the government would change things," he said before taking stage at the nearly annual concert Saturday.
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The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will spend $150 million (U.S.) over the next five years to help Africa's small farmers boost food production.
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Low-income families eat better when given vouchers to farmers' markets.
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Five of the countryÂs largest snack food producers said they would start providing more nutritious foods to schools in an effort to fight childhood obesity.
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Mariano Canu can't stop smiling as he looks out on his lettuce crop. With the help of U.S. government aid, he exports vegetables across Central America and is no longer struggling just to get by.
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Financial results were fierce for this agricultural enabler.
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Processed produce has a long journey from the grower to the table, increasing the number of chances for contamination &#151; and making it easier to spread.
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In an effort to educate the nation's neediest children on nutrition, a new project uses the familiar medium of video games to broadcast its message.
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Children will be offered cooking lessons to improve their kitchen skills and to encourage a better diet.
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The UK's biggest public exercise on encouraging healthy eating is to be launched across Wales.
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The House voted Monday to protect aid to farmers who convert to environmentally sound practices. The measure, now on its way to President Bush, would block the Agriculture Department from tapping some of the funding for administrative expenses. The USDA's use of program money for overhead costs farmers about &#36;150 million a year that could help them learn farming methods that protect air, water and wildlife, said Environmental Defense spokesman Scott Faber.
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For the first time, the federal government has proposed placing responsibility for preventing food-borne illness on farmers rather than on consumers.
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The grants aim to test the idea that diseases such as trachoma and hookworm, which largely afflict the rural poor, can be tackled together more effectively than one at a time.
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Pupils should be offered more healthy food, including fresh fruit and vegetables, at school dinner times, a charity's report says.
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PITTSBURGH - An expansion of a federal pilot program that provides schools with funding for fruits and vegetables might help students get as enthusiastic about brussels sprouts and broccoli as they are about pizza and ice cream, a U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Thursday...
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The government of Mauritania is appealing to international donors to help it reverse a food shortage affecting more than 1 million people.
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It's hard to find enough green space here for a soccer field, let alone a farm. So why is Farm Aid coming to this concrete-covered city known for crime, poverty and political corruption rather than a place known for corn, beans and hogs?