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Christina Hecht comments on America’s concurrent food and water security crises in a Food & Environment Reporting Network article

December 12, 2022

By Christina E Hecht, Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie

Christina Hecht, senior policy adviser with the University of California's Nutrition Policy Institute, was featured in a Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) article titled Why America's food-security crisis is a water-security crisis, too, published on November 20, 2022.

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Policy briefs elevating parent voices on the importance of school meals now available in Spanish

December 8, 2022

By Christina E Hecht, Lorrene D Ritchie, Danielle Lee

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nutrition Policy Institute policy team, Christina Hecht and Ken Hecht, have partnered with a Stanford University research team and two San Joaquin Valley community-based organizations, Dolores Huerta Foundation and Cultiva La Salud, to help improve acce...

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NPI leads special issue on improving school nutrition and student health in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

December 8, 2022

By Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers served as guest editors for a special issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focusing on 21st-century global innovations in school nutrition to improve the diet, food security, and ultimately the health and well-...

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NPI receives grant to evaluate the impact of the California Fruit and Vegetable pilot on farmers markets and CalFresh shoppers

November 23, 2022

By Danielle Lee, Wendi Gosliner

The California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project aims to develop and refine a scalable model for increasing the purchase and consumption of California-grown fresh fruits and vegetables by delivering supplemental benefits to CalFresh recipients in a way that can be easily adopted by USDA Food and...

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Research brief on study that identified limited implementation of California’s Healthy Default Beverage law

November 4, 2022

By Christina E Hecht, Danielle Lee

A new research brief developed by the Nutrition Policy Institute describes a study that identified limited implementation of California's Healthy Default Beverage Law (SB 1192) for orders made online.

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