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Food And Farms Summit Focuses On Hunger, Health
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terns,
Dr. Michael Hamm, dean of
Academic and Student Programs
at Cook College, Rutgers Univer
sity. received the Mid-Atlantic
Innovation and leadership
Award.
Hamm's long history of work
in the field of sustainable food
>ystems and agncultuic includes
co-tounding and directing the
New Jersey Urban Ecology Pro-
Desmond Jolly, Califor
nia ag economist, tells
Food & Farm Summit
guests that a healthy de
mocracy needs healthy
farms, families, and com
munities.
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The piogram involves training
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nities. and the Farm to School
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the connection between locally
grown food and the school lunch
program.
Hamm has also facilitated the
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Food Stamp Nutrition education
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Lorraine Matthews, a nutri
tionist in the City of Philadelphia
Dept, of Health for more than 32
years, received The Future of Our
Food and Farms Career
Achievement Award.
Matthews, who grew up on a
farm in lowa, “has worked in al
most every capacity as a nutri
tionist in Philadelphia,” said
Sandy Sherman of The Food
Trust in presenting the award.
Beside working as a nutrition
ist, Matthews has also served on
numerous research and educa
tion committees and is active in
hunger advocacy and commu
nity-housing programs. In Octo
ber, she received the Medallion
Award from the American Die
tetic Association.
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Matthews said she enjoys
bringing her farm experiences to
the work of educating people
about food and nutrition
“There's an awful lot of people
in this world who don't know
where their food comes from,"
she said.
Matthews lectures widely on a
variety of topics and has author
ed more than 40 ai tides on
health care, legislative issues,
health promotion, and participa
tive education.
Sessions thioughout the two
day summit addressed such top
ics as: food for every child; har
vesting support for locally-grown
food; sprawl: a threat or an op
portunity for food and food secu
rity; nutrition education: success
ful small-farm cooperatives; new
ventures for African-American
farmers; keys to farmland protec
tion; youth innovators; reconnect
ing agriculture, food, and com
munity; reaching hungry people
through miraculous collabora
tions; direct marketing; and food
safety from field to fork.
The 4th Annual Future of Our
Food & Farms Summit was or
Penn State Experts Write Forest Estate-Planning Book
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
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gone, what will happen to that
tract of forestland you worry
about managing? Two experts in
Penn State’s College of Agricul
tural Sciences have written a
book to help you have
some say.
“Estate Planning
Opportunities and
Strategies for Private
Forest Landowners,”
by Michael G. Jacob
son, assistant professor
of forest resources and
extension forester, and
John C. Becker, pro
fessor of agricultural
economics and law, is
available on the Na
tional Timber Tax
Website at http;//
www.timber
tax.org. The book is
available only on the
Website because of
continuous changes to
tax law.
“Printed copies like
ly would become out
dated quickly,” said
Jacobson. “The Web
enables us to update
the information easily.
“Although there is
intense discussion
about repealing feder
al ‘death taxes,’ com
monly known as the
Federal Estate and
Gift Tax,” he said,
“private forest land
owners in the United
States need to under
stand the role that
their forest assets play
in their overall estate.
They also need to ap
preciate the impor-
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tainable Agriculture Working
Group (NESAWG) and spon
sored in part by Land O'Lakes,
Northeast SAKE, Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, and
the Pennsylvania Nutrition Edu
cation Program
Other featured speakers in
cluded Dr. Marion Nestle, profes
sor and chair oi nutrition and
food studies at New \ork Uni
versity and membei of the FDA's
science board, and Michael
Castle. L.S representative from
Delaware.
Castle affirmed the need tor
both non-government and gov
ernment organizations to join to
gether in eliminating hunger and
educating people about nutrition.
A billion people in the world
suffer from hunger and malnutri
tion, Castle said, with 33 million
in the U.S. living in households
that deal with hunger, including
those “who are not just hungry
but are physically suffering.”
Inadequate delivery systems
are a major reason not everyone
has enough to eat, according to
Castle. Facilitating more equit-
tance of coordinated planning to
avoid conflicts and compromises
to prudent forest management
goals.”
Failing to consider the impact
of estate and inheritance taxes
can disrupt effective forest man-
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able food distribution is “where
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said.
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heirs abandoning forest owner
ship or fragmenting it in ways
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management.
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