Food
| Food Safety: | |
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www.foodsafety.gov. |
FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. FoodSafety is a gateway website that provides links to selected government food safety-related information. Part of the National Food Safety Information Network. |
www.centerforfoodsafety.org |
Center for Food Safety is a non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy membership organization established for the purpose of challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives. |
www.foodandwaterwatch.org |
Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. Challenges the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public awareness about what we eat and drink. |
www.foodsecurity.org |
Community Food Security Coalition is a non-profit dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. Aims to develop self-reliance among all communities to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability. |
www.fao.org |
United Nations- Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Quality and Standards Service (AGNS) is committed to the enhancement of food safety and quality along the food chain at international, regional and national levels, with the aim of protecting consumers and promoting the production and trade of safe, quality food. |
www.consumersunion.org |
Consumers Union’s food safety efforts seek to focus public attention on food safety risks and regulatory deficiencies that can result in harm to the public. The non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports. |
| Security: | |
www.worldhungeryear.org |
USDA's Community Food Projects- Food Security Learning Center. |
www.fao.org |
FAO. "Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition" This paper examines the direct nutrition effects of rising climate change and bioenergy demand, as well as its contribution to rising food prices. It also provides several options for improving food security and nutrition, as well as for addressing the links between climate change and bioenergy demand and nutrition. PDF. |
www.foodsecurity.org |
Community Food Security Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. |
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