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Featured in the News

Watershed Council celebrates successful grazing project | 2023 | SWNews4U

Center Adds Strength to Network | 2022 | Agri-View

New USDA Program Draws Lessons From Food Box Program | 2022 | Food Bank News

The Collective Future of American Agriculture | 2021 | Food & Environment Reporting Network

Faces of Food System Planning: Ellie Bomstein | 2021 | American Planning Association

Northwest Co-op Builds for a Local Food Future Beyond Big Ag | 2020 | High Country News

You Should Know a Farmer | 2020 | Red Canary Collective

Farmers and Funders Get Behind a Push to Reinvent Agriculture | 2020 | Inside Philanthropy

Creating a Resilient Local Food Economy in New Orleans | 2019 | Food Tank

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Announcing the Midwest Grazing Exchange
Accessing land to graze, or finding livestock farmers to partner with, can be a barrier to expanding integrated crop-livestock systems. A new website by the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group – a network of grazing educators in the Upper Midwest that includes the Wallace Center's Pasture Project – seeks to address this challenge. Read More
Collaborating for Native Communities
By the time A-dae Briones joined a late March conference call with national funders and partners about the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains in the U.S., she had already spent days fielding appeals for food and water from Native American communities across the Southwest. Read More
Natilee McGruder – Reflections on Time with the Wallace Center
Natilee McGruder's year with the Wallace Center was short but impactful! Given her many gifts, talents, and passions, Natilee was quickly pulled into a lot of important facets of Wallace work, in addition to her leading our internal and external communications.   Read More
John Fisk – Reflections and Legacy at the Wallace Center
After 15 years in leadership at the Wallace Center at Winrock International, our dear friend and esteemed colleague John Fisk has moved on to a new chapter. Read more about his legacy here. Read More
Important Organizational Updates from the Wallace Center
At the end of July 2020, we bid farewell to two dear colleagues and revered food systems leaders, John Fisk and Natilee McGruder. Please take some time to read about their time with the Wallace Center as we celebrate them and wish them the best in their new chapters. Read More
Wallace Center Condemns Police Brutality
The Wallace Center unequivocally denounces and condemns the brutal murder of George Floyd by several of the members of the Minneapolis Police Department and the trauma it has continuously inflicted on the city’s Black community. Read More
A More Just Vision: Collaborating on the Future of Good Food
John Fisk reflects on the 2020 NGFN conference, COVID-19, and the future of good food. Read More
Wallace Center Launches FSLN COVID-19 Response Group
The Wallace Center recently launched a new national listserv – the Food Systems Leadership Network COVID-19 Response Group. Read More
Call to Action on Food System Disruption by COVID-19
We are farmers, farm workers, food hubs, food processors, food businesses, food business incubators, food justice advocates, farmers market operators, organizers and academics. Together we are working to build a just, equitable and resilient food economy that is accessible to all. Local food systems drive the economy of a place, create community, provide jobs and support public health and environmental sustainability. Read More
Announcing the Second Cohort of Regional Food Economy Fellows
The Wallace Center at Winrock International is pleased to announce its second cohort of Regional Food Economies Fellows which will focus on the emerging practice of Equitable Food Oriented Development. The Fellows include Lorena Andrade of La Mujer Obrera, Mariela Cedeno of Mandela Partners, and Neelam Sharma of Community Services Unlimited. Read More
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