Center for Regional Food Systems

News

• Michigan Food Hub Network to expand under renewed grant

  Published on August 25, 2015
  The MSU Center for Regional Food Systems has received a $450k continuation grant from the Kresge Foundation to expand the Michigan Food Hub Network.

• The Group GAP Pilot Project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Press Release

  Published on August 5, 2015
  New Report on Food Safety Pilot Project in the Upper Peninsula explored how a group-based farm-based food safety certification process could benefit small farmers.

• City Region Food Systems, Part 3b – Scale and Production Strategy Blog post by Mike Hamm

  Published on July 7, 2015
  CRFS Director Mike Hamm critiques the notion that smaller scale and alternative production strategies can feed the U.S. population and also considers a middle path of scale and production diversity.

• City Region Food Systems, Part 3a – Scale and Production Strategy Blog post by Mike Hamm

  Published on June 25, 2015
  CRFS Director Mike Hamm discusses contested issues that are linked to the challenges posed by growing urbanization. This is the first of a two-part blog looking at scale and production strategy.

• Bayer Gift Helps Harvest Hope

  Published on June 17, 2015
  CRFS Director Mike Hamm discusses the Bayer's endowment and how it will catalyze a broad range of good food research.

• City Region Food Systems, Part 2 – Conceptualization Blog post by Mike Hamm

  Published on June 9, 2015
  CRFS Director Mike Hamm discusses contested issues that are linked to the challenges posed by growing urbanization. This is the second in a short series in which Hamm explores the value of city-region food systems, obstacles to their development.

• City Region Food Systems, Part I – Conceptualization Blog post by Mike Hamm

  Published on May 26, 2015
  CRFS Director Mike Hamm discusses contested issues that are linked to the challenges posed by growing urbanization. This is the first in a short series in which Hamm explores the value of city-region food systems, obstacles to their development.

• From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone - New book by CRFS Affiliate Paul B. Thompson

  Published on May 6, 2015
  From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone by Paul B. Thompson - W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food, and Community Ethics at MSU and CRFS Affiliate, will be released June 5 2015. It is available for pre-order on Amazon.

• U.S. Dietary Guidelines Report - What's the Fuss Over Sustainability?

  Published on April 2, 2015
  Mike Hamm was one of two sustainability consultants to the 2015 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). In this blog, Hamm responds to comments that misinterpret the 2015 DGAC report's findings about diet and sustainability.

• "Feeding Cities - with Indoor Vertical Farms?" New blog post by Mike Hamm, CRFS Director

  Published on March 31, 2015
  Mike Hamm compares three potential solutions to make urban agriculture more sustainable: fully indoor vertical farming, greenhouses and hoophouses.