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Food Public Policy

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Public policy issues and initiatives influencing food and nutrition policies and agricultural impacts.

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Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet. It most often refers to undernutrition resulting from inadequate consumption, poor absorption, or excessive loss of nutrients, but the term can also encompass overnutrition, resulting from overeating or excessive intake of specific nutrients. - Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition Amy Sample Ward

Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses, these essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society. - Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty Amy Sample Ward

Public policy or ordre public is the body of fundamental principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state. This addresses the social, moral and economic values that tie a society together: values that vary in different cultures and change over time. Wikipedia (Public Policy Law) at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy_%28law%29 Amy Sample Ward

Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a problem. Public policy is expressed in the body of laws, regulations, decisions and actions of government. Policy analysis may be used to formulate public policy and to evaluate its effectiveness. Many public policy analysts earn Ph.D., Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Administration degrees in public policy schools, while others earn specialized degrees, such as an M.Ed for specializing in educational policy or an MSW for specializing in social welfare policy. - Wikipedia (Public Policy) at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy Amy Sample Ward

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The Oregon Food Bank Network releases annual statewide statistics
"High unemployment and growing foreclosures forced a record number of people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., to seek emergency food in fiscal year 2008-09, Rachel Bristol, CEO of Oregon Food Bank, announced today."
Distribution of emergency food boxes throughout the Oregon Food Bank Network skyrocketed to historic highs, according to the OFB Networks' annual year-end report (July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009) Read the news release for an overview > http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/news/news_releases/view.html?id=235

OFB Network's 2008-09 statistics broadsheet (PDF)
http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/research_and_action/documents/broadsheet_2008-09.pdf

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RESULTS
"RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. RESULTS is committed to individuals exercising their personal and political power by lobbying elected officials for effective solutions and key policies that affect hunger and poverty."

http://www.results.org
750 First Street NE, Suite 1040
Washington, DC 20002
202-783-7100
results@results.org

Amy Sample Ward