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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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Beekeepers & Environmental Groups to EPA: Pesticide Approval is “Irresponsible” & “Damaging”

Paul Towers, Pesticide Action Network ptowers@panna.org, cell: 916-216-1082 John Kepner, Beyond Pesticides jkepner@beyondpesticides.org, 202-543-5450 x20 Peter Jenkins, Center for Food Safety pjenkins@icta.org, 202-547-9359 March 21, 2012 Beekeepers & Environmental Groups to EPA: Pesticide Approval is “Irresponsible” & “Damaging” Over 1 million urge EPA to suspend

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Kids’ Health & Farming Advocates Urge Governor to Adopt ‘Healthy Children & Green Jobs’ Platform

October 13, 2010 For more information & interviews, contact: Tracey Brieger, Californians for Pesticide Reform, 415-215-5473, tracey@pesticidereform.org Paul Towers, Pesticide Watch, 916-216-1082, paul@pesticidewatch.org Susan Kegley, Pesticide Action Network Consulting Scientist, 510-759-9397, skegley@pesticideresearch.com Kids’ Health & Farming Advocates Urge Governor to Adopt   ‘Healthy Children & Green

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Iowa Updates: September 2020

As 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

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Of radishes, politics & hope

The phrase “food is political” pops up all the time in the food and farm movement world, and has particular weight right now as we head toward the finish line of this incredibly fraught and consequential election season. So what, exactly, does it mean?

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