Michigan’s urban communities are facing multiple food- and health-related problems exacerbated by the state’s decades multi-decadal economic downturn, including the lead contamination of Flint’s water supply and substantial food deserts in Michigan cities.
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The Noble Research Institute and Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research are working to promote soil health through the development/adoption of new cover crops across the United States. The project’s current focus is to identify species with the greatest potential as cover crops.
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FFAR awarded $9.4 million to the Soil Health Institute, the Soil Health Partnership and The Nature Conservancy for collaborative research and education during 2018-2020. The goals are to accelerate adoption and benefits of managing soil health, which can increase farm profitability while protecting natural resources for sustainable agricultural systems.
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Although pollinators are vital to more than 80 of the world’s important food crops, farmland can often be a challenging landscape for pollinators to flourish in. Our Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)-sponsored research will allow us to understand how agriculture impacts bee nutrition, pesticide exposure, disease and beneficial microbes.
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Purdue University is launching a new Center for Open Agricultural Technologies and Systems (OATS) with the support of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and industry partners. OATS researches sensing, networking, computation, data science and analytics for application to productive and sustainable food-ag systems and fosters wide-scale innovation via open source community building.
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Through a FFAR grant to the University of Florida, I’m working with plant pathologist Dr. Richard Raid to battle a soil-borne disease, Fusarium wilt, which could affect the 3% of lettuce production that comes from Palm Beach County to east coast markets in the winter.
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Sustainable Food Center, an Austin, Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to strengthening the local food system, was recently awarded a FFAR Tipping Points grant to study and model the impact of existing efforts in Austin to increase residents’ access to healthy foods.
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Freedom of the press, free speech and the right to assemble serve as the very foundation of democracies around the world. Our nation’s First Amendment, which embodies these Constitutional rights, must be protected if democracy is to flourish. These freedoms have been challenged and met many times in our history – and the nation has become stronger as a result.
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The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards, founded in 1979, honor those who breathe life into these freedoms, and often go above and beyond to support First Amendment rights, which is especially important today. We’re thrilled to honor our 2018 awardees:
