The Policy of Child Nutrition
What’s the recipe for good, clean and fair food options in our nation’s schools? Learn from experts who are feeding students, researching policies, and implementing legislation to improve school nutrition programs.
Improvements, challenges and opportunities for progress in Child Nutrition Reauthorization
By Sara S. Blomquist, SFUSA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). These...Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Letter from Slow Food USA
About every five years, Congress, via a Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), reauthorizes essential federal nutrition programs that help provide healthy food and nutrition to more than 35,000,000 children and infants each year. Slow Food USA calls upon Congress and the Biden/Harris Administration to ensure that the next Child Nutrition Reauthorization addresses the many facets of child nutrition security. Read our Executive Director’s letter to Congress.
The Next Four Years: Food and Farm Transition Recommendations
Sent to the Honorable Anita Dunn, Ted Kaufman, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Cedric Richmond, and Jeffrey Zients Co-Chairs, Transition Team of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 Re: Food and Farm...Ten Years of School Meals
by Lydia Carron, Slow Food USA Policy Intern Periodic federal legislation, the Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), updates the nation’s laws providing for school meals, including the original National School Lunch Program (NSLP), begun in 1946, the School Breakfast...The Blue Watermelon Project
The Blue Watermelon Project engages chefs from the area to work with students in school to “integrate taste education and interactive programming into curriculum and everyday life.” The initiative is affiliated with Slow Food Phoenix.
