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The Institute Launches the Food Security Strategy Group

Dan Glickman is the executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of the ...

BY Dan Glickman

Blog Post

05.31.2013
Food Security

How the President Can Move the Debate on Resolving the Fiscal Cliff

As Congress and the president try to find a solution to the issues surrounding the so-called "fiscal cliff," many observers are left wondering what will be ...

Blog Post

12.04.2012
Food Security

The SNAP Program: A Review and History

In June of this year 46.7 million Americans—about one in seven—received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—SNAP. SNAP is, of ...

BY Dan Glickman

Blog Post

10.01.2012
Food Security

Why Congress Can't Pass a Farm Bill

The failure of Congress to pass a new Farm Bill is another example of the institutional and structural dysfunction currently affecting the Congress. The le ...

BY Dan Glickman

Blog Post

09.21.2012
Food Security

Expanding Food Production

Dan Glickman is the Executive Director of the Institute's Congressional Program, and served as secretary of Agriculture from 1995 to 2001. This article or ...

BY Dan Glickman

Blog Post

08.28.2012
Food Security

On the Future of Food: Discussing Reform and the Resistance to Change

In the second of two conversations centered on food (check out our talk from earlier the same day on the role of low-wage food service workers in our econo ...

Blog Post

03.09.2012
Food Security

Institute Experts Make Recommendations for Federal Government Reforms

President Obama called on Congress last week to work with his administration to introduce reforms that would make the federal government more efficient. We ...

Blog Post

01.17.2012
Food Security

The Revolution We Need in Food Security and Population

The first months of this year brought the second global food price crisis in just three years, with soaring food prices against a backdrop of bad weather, ...

BY Marissa Mommaerts, Program Officer, Aspen Global Health and Development

Blog Post

04.22.2011
Food Security

2011 Winter Seminars

Participants celebrated President's Day Weekend, February 18-21, in Aspen, CO, where they joined one of four expert-moderated roundtable seminars availab ...

BY Institute Contributor

Blog Post

02.21.2011
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