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Amid U.S. and industry pressure, Mexico delays glyphosate ban

On April 1, 2024, Mexico was set to follow through with its 2020 commitment to ban the toxic herbicide glyphosate (the active ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup in the USA and Faena in Mexico) by 2024. When the plan to phase out glyphosate and genetically engineered (GE) corn was originally laid out, Mexico’s government cited the purpose of the new policies as “contributing to food sovereignty and security” and the health of the Mexican people, as well as protecting native corn from contamination by GE pollen. Glyphosate is a pervasive herbicide frequently used on corn and other commodity crops, and genetically engineered corn is often modified to—among other things—be resistant to glyphosate.

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Farm Bill Updates

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About every five years, the U.S. Congress passes the biggest set of food and farming policies that define the majority of federal farm, food, nutrition, and rural economic programs. At a cost of about $440 billion over five years, these programs influence: What is grown; who grows it; how it is grown or produced; what is done with those products and where they are sold; who can access and afford those goods; and how we invest in rural communities.

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Two webinars: Small-scale, diversified farming

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Watch and listen as two experienced farmers share stories and practical approaches for small-scale, diversified farms that use the principles of agroecology.  This discussion may provide you with ideas that small farms where you live can adapt and thrive.

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Big global win on the world’s most toxic pesticides

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After many long days of negotiations, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) made a historic move for safer food and farming by passing a resolution on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) that calls for action to globally phase out the use of the world’s most toxic pesticides by 2035. Tied with this resolution was the passing of a mandate for UNEP to implement this commitment by forming the Global Alliance on HHPs.

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Why farmers oppose the Monsanto mega-merger

March 7, 2018

National poll results released this week confirm that farmers across the country believe the merger of Bayer and Monsanto will be bad for farming and farm communities. As the Department of Justice considers its final decision regarding the merger, the poll demonstrates serious concern from

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Native voices on food and farming

February 22, 2018

PAN board member Kyle Powys Whyte holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability and a member of the Potawatomi Nation. PAN’s Executive Director Kristin Schafer recently chatted with Kyle about Indigenous food

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Future of food? Ask farmers, not DowDuPont

February 20, 2018

What were they thinking over at The Atlantic? Last week, the normally fact-focused magazine and media company hosted an event entitled “Harvest: Transforming the Food We Eat” in New York City — and the evening was wholely underwritten by the Agricultural Division of DowDuPont.

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EPA weakens worker protections. Senators fight back.

February 19, 2018

In October 2015, we celebrated with farmworker unions and advocates when a much-improved Worker Protection Standard (WPS) was approved. The WPS is the only federal rule that protects farmworkers from exposure to hazardous pesticides on the job, and hadn’t been updated in more than 20

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