Last year California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill providing $6 million over three years to the Food Is Medicine pilot. The pilot will provide medically tailored meals for 1,000 Medi-Cal patients struggling with either TypeII Diabetes or congestive heart failure. We look at what sorts of benefits that might bring, and how organizations elsewhere in the country are taking up the "food as medicine" idea and running with it, too.
From Veggie Vouchers to Vertical Farming, Talking Solutions with Civil Eats
SNAP, the Farm Bill, and More with The New Food Economy's Claire Brown
A Detroit Food Pantry Giving People Choices, Stability, and Dignity
Community Coalition of South Los Angeles on the Intersection of Food Access, Transportation, Discrimination, Health, and Poverty
The Intersection of Colonization and Food Sovereignty for the Navajo Nation
Rethinking "Poor People's Food" in Appalachia
The Link Between the Opioid Crisis and Food Insecurity in Dayton, Ohio
Tracing Red Lines and Food Insecurity in Birmingham, Alabama
How Redlining Helped Create Food Insecurity
The Role of Ethnic Markets & Bodegas in Addressing Food Insecurity
The Web of Poverty, Racism, and Sexism Surrounding Food Insecurity
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