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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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EPA greenlights two controversial pesticides

Amidst the election turmoil of the last few weeks, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly approved more harmful pesticide products for use with genetically engineered (GE) seeds. EPA put Dow’s “Enlist Duo” cocktail of glyphosate and 2,4-D back on the market, after pulling it

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. . . and justice for all.

This is a very different post-election blog than the one I planned to write. I was going to call the new president’s attention to the political importance of food and farming, highlighting the fact that how we grow our food directly impacts the health of

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EPA Rushes to Approve Monsanto’s Herbicide Dicamba for GE Crops

For Immediate Release: November 9, 2016 Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its decision to grant a so-called “conditional registration” to Monsanto’s dicamba-based herbicide, Xtendimax, for new uses on genetically-engineered (GE) dicamba-resistant cotton and soybean. The agency’s approval applies to agricultural use in 34

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