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Farm Bill Updates

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.

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.

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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DowDupont Special Shareholder meeting keeps shareholders silent

For Immediate Release: July 20, 2016 Midland, Michigan – Earlier this morning, Dow shareholders the Adrian Dominican Sisters, also representing PAN North America, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and Trillium Asset Management, attempted to share concerns about risks of growing seed and pesticide market control

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Teachers, communities stand up for kids’ health

Air blaster. Aerial spraying. Fumigation. Unless things change, another school year will go by with pesticides being applied by these methods right outside classroom windows. That’s why we hand-delivered boxes carrying over 26,000 comments demanding protections for schoolkids last Tuesday, as a crowd gathered outside

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After 20 Years, Champions of Pesticide Reform Honored in Sacramento

For Immediate Release: July 13, 2016 Sacramento CA– Health, food and farming organizations across California came together at St. John’s Lutheran Church yesterday to celebrate their accomplishments over the past 20 years; working jointly with Californians for Pesticide Reform, this coalition has strengthened local and

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Farming Community Residents from Around the State Rally in Sacramento to Demand Protections from Agricultural Pesticides for California Schoolkids

Residents from California’s farming regions converged on Sacramento today to deliver over 25,000 petition signatures and a letter representing hundreds of thousands of Californians, all demanding protections for their children from exposure to agricultural pesticides at school. For Immediate Release: July 12, 2016 Sacramento, CA

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This GMO labeling “compromise” is bad news

[Update: On July 7, the Senate voted to pass this latest version of the DARK Act. The House approved the bill on July 14. It is now headed to the President’s desk.] You heard right, a new version of legislation to undermine GMO labeling is

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