STEWARD

Resource List: Agriculture, Food, Environment, Healthcare, and Nutrition

This page will continually be updated - feel free to bookmark and check back periodically for new recommendations. Links marked with an * indicate particularly illuminating articles or tools I've appreciated. Italicized links are books.

 - updated on 23 March 2022- 

Agriculture

Here's How America Uses Its Land*
How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers
There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared? 

Environment (Climate Change and Planetary Health)

Anthropocene Magazine (website, generally well-balanced summaries of recent research like this)
The Lancet (2020): The neglected environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods
National Academies of Science (2018): Sustainable Diets
Waterbear (the Harries twins' version of Netflix - but free! It's a repertoire of films to address the climate crisis.)

Faith and Food

2020 Hunger Report (Bread for the World)
Finding Hope, Ending Hunger on Both Sides of the Border: A Bilingual Latino Devotional (Bread for the World)
Hunger is a Health Issue (The Catholic Health Association of the United States)
When Populations Become the Patient (The Catholic Health Association of the United States)

Food Justice and Community Power

McDonald's, Food Justice, and the Problem with Black Capitalism (Civil Eats)
The Praxis Learning Center (Social Determinants of Health Equity and Communities Building Power for Health) (website)
Urban Food Justice (Tufts University) (website)

Global Health

Health Desk (Meedan Digital Health Labs) (website)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and... Supremacy, Neo-Colonialism, and International Development

Migration

Ingredients for a new life: how cooking helps refugees and migrants blend in (UN News)
Resettling Main Street: Refugees bring revitalization to some of America’s small cities (Democrat & Chronicle)

Nutrition

*Lifelong Learning Resources for Nutrition Professionals*

Abbey's Kitchen (Abbey Sharp) (YouTube Channel)
Is the food bank system contributing to health disparities?
Kid Food (Bettina Elias Siegel)
Pick Up Limes (Sadia Bidiei) (YouTube Channel)
Salt, Sugar, Fat (Michael Moss)
School Meal Programs Around the World Report (Global Child Nutrition Foundation)
The Lancet (2020): Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: a global analysis
What to Eat (Marion Nestle)

Policy

CivilEats (website)
Economics for Food and Nutrition Policy (Will Masters) (website)
Excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages in Latin America and the Caribbean (PAHO)
Food Policy in the United States (Parke Wilde)
Food Policy "Bites" (Stephanie Simms Hodges) (newsletter)
Food Politics (Marion Nestle) (website)
Food Research Action Center (newsletter)
Politico: Weekly Agriculture (website, newsletter)
The Lunch Table (Bettina Elias Siegel) (website)
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health (website)

Social Documentary Photography

Amnesty International: General Photographic Principles
The Conversation: Images of Suffering Can Bring About Change, But Are They Ethical?
Researching Cultural Aspects of Food Sovereignty
Save the Children: The People in the Pictures