September 2024 FOod news

• Bread Line sees record numbers as Covid grant runs out

• Expanded access to food stamps, health care becomes law in Alaska

August 2024 Food News

• AFPC Featured- OPINION: Farmers markets strengthen Alaska’s economy and community spirit

• “Historic”: Black Farmers Celebrate $2 Billion Payout for USDA Discrimination, Still Seek Debt Relief

• Peltola Intros Domestic Seafood Production Act

• VP Pick Tim Walz Has Long Centered Food Policy

• American Seafoods Expands Grant Program to Address Critical Community Needs in Alaska

• Alaska’s Peltola introduces bill to ban offshore fish farming

july 2024 food news

• AFPC Featured- OPINION: Seeing green: Fresh spinach needs fresh funding

• AFPC Featured- Building Bridges Across the Pacific

• AFPC Featured- Anchorage Museum bike tour helps riders discover the city’s secret gardens

• St. Francis House Food Pantry in Anchorage Needs Urgent Donations

• U.S. District judge hears food stamp backlog case against Alaska’s health department

• An expansion underway at the Alaska Native Heritage Center includes a new healing garden and a subsistence kitchen

• 18 Safeway/Carrs stores in Alaska to be sold

• 18 Alaska Carrs Safeway stores targeted for divestiture in Kroger-Albertsons merger

• Global meeting focuses on fisheries and aquaculture’s vital role in tackling food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty

• Health, food preservation workshops planned for Southeast Alaska

• OPINION: A better plan for Alaska food security

• Alaska looks to improve SNAP benefit policy after USDA penalty

• USDA penalizes Alaska $12 million for overpaying food stamp benefits

• The Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision

• Farming in Alaska all about food security

JUNE 2024 Food News

• Alaska agriculture is diverse, innovative and growing>>

• Alaska’s food stamp program rebound continues with more users, timely benefits>>

• Sundown Festival supports food bank with mural auction>>

• Health, food preservation workshops planned for Southeast Alaska>>

• Senate Ag GOP Unveils Farm Bill Framework>>

• About 282 million people faced acute hunger last year: UN-led report>>

• Farm Bill Coalition Advocates for Priorities in Farm Bill>>

• 2 Alaska journalists win James Beard Media Awards>>

• IFPA releases reports studying impact of ag labor crisis on food security>>

• in America: Exploring the Food Desert Crisis>>

• Bay Seafoods acquires Alaska salmon plant from Trident Seafoods>>

• Study highlights rising rates of food and water insecurity among U.S. children>>

• Delayed cargo ship halts delivery of grocery items to Alaska>>

• CDC Regional Health Effects - Alaska>>

• Congress weighs delaying farm bill over SNAP and climate disputes>>

• New bill could bail out US farmers ruined by ‘forever chemical’ pollution>>

may 2024 food news

• Alaska lawmakers choose lower funding proposals for school lunches, reading reforms>>

• Growing the bounty of Alaska's agriculture>>

• Alaskans suing state over food assistance delays ask judge to order faster application processing>>

• Alaska lawmakers approve task force to consider responses to seafood industry ‘implosion’>>

• Senate committee strips Port MacKenzie rail extension funding from bill>>

• Nearly One in Ten Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Have Experienced Homelessness in the Past Year and Over a Third Have Been Forced to Use a Food Bank>>

• What is ‘sogflation’ and how is it threatening food supply chains?>>

• The Seed Industry’s Work to Stamp Out Hunger>>

• Yes, it’s Still Farm Bill Season. Here’s What You Need to Know about the Future of Food Policy>>

• OPINION: Congress Must Pass the Vital Farm Bill to Address Food Security>>

• Silver Nova's first Alaska season features S.A.L.T. program debut there>>

• Free meals for low-income Alaska students removed from final budget>>

• Scientists honored as 2024 World Food Prize Laureates for roles in world seed vault project>>

• A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024>>

• USDA can’t get enough Alaska pollock, canned pink salmon>>

• The Federal Government is Assuming Management of Salmon Fishing in Parts of Alaska’s Cook Inlet>>

APRIL 2024 Food News

• AFPC SPOTLIGHT: OPINION: Making trash into treasure and other ways to celebrate Earth Day>>

• AFPC SPOTLIGHT: OPINION: Food waste prevention is possible in every Alaska community>>

• Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska launches free food distribution program>>

• Alaska Native community experiments with growing food above the Arctic Circle>>

• University of Alaska gets $20M to study effects of climate change on fishing and harvesting in the Gulf of Alaska>>

• King Cove braces for salmon season with no seafood processor amid historic price slump>>

• USDA releases new school meal standards to strengthen child nutrition>>

• USDA Study Finds Energy Production Payments to Farmers Important to Farm Income>>

• For This Alaska Town, Whaling Is a Way of Life>>

• USDA agrees to purchase more seafood for American nutrition assistance programs>>

• University of Alaska gets $20M to study effects of climate change on fishing and harvesting in the Gulf of Alaska>>

• US food assistance program seeks government grant to help struggling Alaska seafood processors>>

• Food preservation workshops scheduled for Yakutat>>

• Senator Murkowski updates WIC food packages with Alaskan salmon for children and mothers in America>>

• Murkowski-Led Update to WIC Food Package Brings Healthy Alaskan Salmon to America’s Children and Mothers>>

• State plans wood bison release near Minto >>

• COMMENTARY: As officials in Alaska talk about subsistence, Natives have lived it, season by season>>

• Alaska House adds funding for school meals and marketing as budget amendments continue>>

• More than a year later, a record storm still thwarts subsistence food harvests in Alaska>>

• Prevalence of food insecurity higher among American Indian and Alaska Native households, report reveals>>

• March for Meals raises funds to support senior food service>>

• Free and reduced-price meals for low-income Alaska students added to draft House budget>>

• FEMA on the ground in Wrangell in historic move after deadly landslide >>

• Alaska tribes, fishing companies, and fisheries testify about declining salmon populations>>

• Food bank raises $20k in annual fundraiser>>

• Public Assistance Division is on course to serve more efficiently >>

• Movement Emphasizes The Role Of Culture In Global Food Security>>

• Western Alaska tribes, outraged by bycatch, turn up the heat on fishery managers and trawlers>>

• Subsistence foods and hazard mitigation is now included in Wrangell Cooperative Association’s disaster declaration>>

• Federal judge sides with Biden administration rejects Alaska bids to expand Kuskokwim fishing>>

• Troubled state-backed seafood company says it will lease out two plants and could sell its assets>>

• Alaska and Canada agree to moratorium on Yukon chinook salmon fishing >>

• Household Food Insecurity Across Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 2016–21>>

• How to Be a Food Policy Advocate in Your Community >>

March 2024 Food News

• Food Research & Action Center Applauds Congress for Releasing FY 2024 Spending Bill to Fully Fund WIC, Rejecting Harmful SNAP Policy Rider >>

• National WIC Association Applauds More than $1 Billion in Additional Funding for WIC in New Government Funding Bill >>

• Murkowski Announces Big Wins for Alaska in Six-Bill Appropriations Package >>

• Alaska will receive $2.6M towards small scale food production>>

• Investing in Women and Girls Makes Economic Sense and Accelerates Progress for Millions of People >>

• Chair Cardin Remarks at Global Food Security Hearing>>

• 'We're building for ourselves': Black Church Food Security Network helps Black communities grow their own food>>

• Utilizing the USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to Calculate a Household-Level Food Environment Measure>>

• State lags in heating assistance payments to Alaskans with low incomes, catches up on food stamps>>

• Wild Alaskan Salmon Buying Club returns to Slow Food Lake Tahoe>>

• Interior businesses and nonprofits host Waste Reduction Week in Fairbanks >>

February 2024 Food News

• Teens in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough learn about food sovereignty through ice fishing>>

• ‘Fortress’ conservation policies threaten the food security of rural populations>>

• Ketchikan grocery store collaborates with artist and culture bearers to cut down on plastic>>

• Capitol Corner: Sen. Jesse Bjorkman — Looking at food security, supporting public workers >>

• Peltola counts FTC action against supermarket merger as a win for bipartisanship >>

• As millions wait on food stamp approvals, feds tell states to speed it up >>

• Agriculture Department commits to big purchase of Alaska salmon and pollock for food programs >>

• Alaska must face food stamp litigation after a year of stays, court says >>

• Alaska seafood shippers to pay $9.5M in Jones Act settlement over 100-foot rail track >>

• 2024 Micro-Grants for Food Security are now available >>

January 2024 Food News

• USDA partners with Alaska to strengthen local food systems >>