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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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Groups sue Trump’s EPA for refusing to ban brain-damaging pesticide

Chlorpyrifos is linked to learning and intellectual disabilities in children For Immediate Release—Aug 7, 2019 SEATTLE, WA— Today, health and labor organizations, including Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN), sued Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to ban a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to

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Groups sue Trump’s EPA for refusing to ban brain-damaging pesticide

Chlorpyrifos is linked to learning and intellectual disabilities in children For Immediate Release—Aug 7, 2019    SEATTLE, WA— Today, health and labor organizations, including Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN), sued Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to ban a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to

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Groups sue Trump’s EPA for refusing to ban brain-damaging pesticide

Chlorpyrifos is linked to learning and intellectual disabilities in children  For Immediate Release—Aug 7, 2019 SEATTLE, WA—Today, health and labor organizations sued Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to ban a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to damaging children’s brains and farmworker poisonings.  “EPA has

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Groups sue Trump’s EPA for refusing to ban brain-damaging pesticide

Chlorpyrifos is linked to learning and intellectual disabilities in children  For Immediate Release—Aug 7, 2019 SEATTLE, WA—Today, health and labor organizations sued Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to ban a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to damaging children’s brains and farmworker poisonings.  “EPA has

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