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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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Analysis: California’s Poorest Counties Hit Hardest by Spraying of Glyphosate

54 Percent of ‘Probable Carcinogen’ Pesticide Applied in Eight Poorest Counties For Immediate Release, November 2, 2015 Contact:  Paul Towers, PAN, (916) 216-1082, ptowers@panna.org Nathan Donley, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6406, ndonley@biologicaldiversity.org Caroline Cox, Center for Environmental Health, (510) 655-3900 x 308, Caroline@ceh.org Abigail

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EPA Moves to Ban Dangerous Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

News Release: October 30, 2015   Contact: Paul Towers, Pesticide Action Network, 916-216-1082, ptowers@panna.org (link sends e-mail) Kari Birdseye, Earthjustice, (415) 217-2098   Children, communities and workers to benefit from long overdue phaseout of neurotoxic agricultural chemical Washington, DC – Some 15 years after the

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USDA suppressing bee science?

Earlier this week, a top researcher for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed a complaint alleging that the agency retaliated against him for his research on bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides — and for blowing the whistle on USDA interference with his research. Dr. Jonathan Lundgren

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No more cancer

Last month, I lost a dear friend to lymphoma. He was a vibrant, healthy 39 year old — a father, a husband, a successful businessman and an incredible musician. And less than a year after his diagnosis, cancer won. Too many of us have similar

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Agroecology works — citizens are proving it

How will we feed over 9 billion people by 2050, and who exactly will feed whom? One thing we do know: business as usual is not the answer. As the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General, José Graziano da Silva said in a speech earlier this year,

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