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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: November 2020

Iowa is one of the states in which PAN does on-the-ground campaign work.  We send out regular updates on PAN and partners’ work in Iowa and beyond — from pesticide-related science to opportunities to take action. If you’d like to receive these updates via email, sign up here.

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Global Outrage at FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry

Hundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN agency to renounce planned alliance with CropLife International For Immediate Release: November 19, 2020 Rome – Today 352 organizations in 63 countries representing hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural workers and other

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Global Outrage as FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry

For Immediate Release November 19, 2020  Contacts: Ahna Kruzic, PAN North America, ahna@panna.org, 510 927 5379 Keith Tyrell, PAN United Kingdom, keith@pan-uk.org, 44 75 887 06224 Ilang-Ilang Quijano, PAN Asia Pacific, ilang.quijano@panap.net Roberto Borrero, International Indian Treaty Council, communications@treatycouncil.org, 917 334 5658     Hundreds of

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Global Outrage as FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry

For Immediate Release November 19, 2020  Contacts: Ahna Kruzic, PAN North America, ahna@panna.org, 510 927 5379 Keith Tyrell, PAN United Kingdom, keith@pan-uk.org, 44 75 887 06224 Ilang-Ilang Quijano, PAN Asia Pacific, ilang.quijano@panap.net Roberto Borrero, International Indian Treaty Council, communications@treatycouncil.org, 917 334 5658     Hundreds of

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