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Digging Deep: Business’ Role in Regenerative Agriculture and Food System Change
July 9, 2019 By Joanna Lyons Joanna Lyons received her Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley in 2019. The food system in the United States faces deep problems. While it may surpass production aims, it falls short from public health, environmental, and economic perspectives. From our nation’s alarmingly high…
Designing the Future of Berkeley’s Beverage Service
This year, in an effort led by students, BFI and campus partners formed the Coalition for Healthy Campus Food and Beverages to bring more stakeholders into campus decision-making on food and beverage choices, uplift Berkeley values through procurement practices, and raise awareness of human and planetary health in the process.
Sugary Drink Taxes: The Bay Area Leads the Way, in Policy and Research
May 15, 2019 By Sydney Bennet, Nick Draper, Irene Farnsworth, and Fiona McBride All authors are Master’s of Public Policy students at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. (From top left clockwise: Bennet, Draper, McBride, Farnsworth) In 2014, with the passage of Measure D, the city of Berkeley, California became the first…
‘It feels like justice and love’: UC Berkeley opens Basic Needs Center in student union
Restoring Democracy: The Battle against Big Soda
February 25, 2019 By Kristine Madsen, MD MPH Dr. Kristine Madsen, a pediatrician, is the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Food Institute and an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. For almost a decade, I worked as a physician in a pediatric obesity clinic. Children from diverse neighborhoods showed up in my exam…