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>>

• 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 >>