Success All Around in California’s Budget and Promising Developments in DC
October 11, 2022 Roots of ChangeExtreme drought, heat, fire, superstorms and malnutrition abound. Luckily governments at all levels are slowly building up steam to address these threats born of climate change, racism and poverty. I […]
Read MoreGovernor Newsom Again Fails to Support the Health Equity & Racial Justice Fund
June 30, 2022 Roots of ChangeFor a second consecutive year, Governor Newsom has declined to invest in a Health Equity and Racial Justice Fund to support transformative community-driven change to reduce health inequities and advance […]
Read MoreCalifornia Meat Processing Progress: Time for Change!
September 15, 2021 Roots of ChangeIn another key accomplishment this year, ROC worked with UC Davis Food Systems Lab and a coalition of stakeholders, co-led by our ally CCOF, to produce this white paper related […]
Read MoreWe are transforming the food system: $1.3 billion in the CA budget!
Roots of ChangeIt takes a movement to transform the food system and ours leaped forward this year. ROC and our AB 125 coalition partners worked closely with Assembly Ag Committee Chair, Robert […]
Read MoreProgress, Never Perfection: Preliminary Results from Our California Budget Work
July 2, 2021 Roots of ChangeWow, our fingers are crossed for even more good news. There are a huge number of unknowns still related to our sustainable agriculture requests. There is more clarity around healthy […]
Read MoreLet’s Feed LA: emergency food relief reveals the power of collaboration
March 20, 2021 Michael R. DimockAt about the time the pandemic hit in March 2020, ROC had entered a partnership with Wholesome Wave to aid them in bringing a new nutrition incentive technology to under-resourced […]
Read MoreA Resilient and Equitable Food and Farming System in California
March 17, 2021 Roots of ChangeToday, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D- Hollister) made an exciting announcement about a bill he just introduced called the Equitable Economic Recovery, Healthy Food Access, Climate Resilient Farms and Worker Protection […]
Read MoreAssessing 2020 and Looking Ahead
December 23, 2020 Roots of ChangeRemarkably, the pandemic’s forced isolation has had a silver lining! I sense that as a nation we are quieter, less peripatetic, more rooted in our communities. I see more reflectiveness, […]
Read MoreReflections on the Moment
November 25, 2020 Roots of ChangeWith over 250,000 Americans dead, family members unable to gather to celebrate, the economic destruction of the pandemic, and a year of racial and political conflict, giving thanks might feel […]
Read MoreThe Logjam in Meat Processing is Killing Producers & Meat Plant Workers
October 28, 2020 Roots of ChangeLast month I mentioned the tragic events surround the death of poultry processing workers at a Foster Farms plant in California’s San Joaquin Valley. It is a sad fact that […]
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