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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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Iowa Updates: September 2021

A self-sustaining and resilient farm is one that welcomes diversity.  Diversity in the products it offers and the enterprises it undertakes.  Diversity in the soil.  Diversity in the plant and animal life.  Diversity in the people that work to keep living farms living. This year,

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Counter-summit challenges corporate-led UN Food Systems Summit

Today, thousands of rural peoples, people’s organizations, CSOs, and advocates kicked off The Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems through various online and on-ground activities to challenge the corporate agenda of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UN FSS), happening on September 23 in

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Minnesota Updates: September 2021

Hello from the PAN Minnesota Team! Sometimes all of the stress and urgency of the issues I organize around, life stuff, and organizing in a pandemic, makes me feel disconnected to people and my purpose. Thankfully, it’s usually not long before one of the people

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