Jenny’s Food and Ag Update for August 18, 2014

Jenny's Food and Ag Update
Eye On The Prize: Addressing A Food Desert In Oakland (Forbes) http://onforb.es/1rjMNhd

No Appetite for Fixing School Lunch (Common Dreams) http://bit.ly/1Bidiui

Communal Lands: Theater of Operations for the Counterinsurgency (Truthout) http://bit.ly/1lSMOWo

The Percentage Of Americans Who Can’t Afford Food Hasn’t Budged Since The Recession Peaked (Huffington Post) http://huff.to/1ldlNlQ

Report: Hunger in America 2014 (Feeding America) http://bit.ly/VzFiZs

Teaching a humonguous foundation to listen to small farmers (Grist) http://bit.ly/1uql0R6

Missouri’s Right to Farm Law Divides the State (Modern Farmer) http://bit.ly/1ssAmUB

Cannabis-Based Batteries Could Charge Your Phone in Seconds – And Change the Way We Store Energy (AlterNet) http://bit.ly/VmM0BV

Iowa’s Corn Farmers Learn To Adapt To Weather Extremes (NPR) http://n.pr/1kzMaSm

Farmers Need To Get ‘Climate Smart’ To Prep For What’s Ahead (NPR) http://n.pr/1lFaUFD

Photos: Fighting to Save the Icelandic Goat (Modern Farmer) http://bit.ly/1ooah7y

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