Agriculture Food Public Policy 
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 4, 2025
The authors also emphasize that sustainable agriculture practices work with rather than at the expense ofthe land (39). More broadly, the report authors note, Disconnection from land, Native food systems, birthing practices, and cultural practices contribute to physical health harm as well. The effects are manifold.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 26, 2025
Likewise, health issues are exacerbated by poor water quality, food shortages, heat exhaustion, cold waves, and air pollution, with the need for money for medical support a leading factor in trapping them in bonded labor.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits.
MNA Association
JUNE 12, 2023
.” Often, it’s a specialty issue that triggers the challenge: hospitals not paying property taxes yet having such a large real estate footprint, or nonprofits owning agricultural land and getting a “discounted” ag rate on their taxes yet not being ag producers. MNA fights to protect tax exemption, and rightfully so.
MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Nonprofit leaders play an important role in shaping public policy. In towns like Big Sandy, nonprofits like our health centers, food pantries, and Rotary clubs are a big part of the fabric of our communities. What are three specific ways in which, if elected, you would partner with and strengthen the nonprofit sector?
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.
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