NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

Letter Dear Chairman Harris, Chairman Hoeven, Ranking Member Bishop, and Ranking Member Shaheen: The undersigned organizations from academia, agriculture, and food stakeholder groups write to thank you for your continued support of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fiscal Year 2025. agriculture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. as it relates to EQIP.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, it’s ecological or cybernetic or complexly interrelated, but it is not magic. Describing and illuminating this web is the “warp and woof” of sustainable agriculture. A web is a serviceable metaphor for complex relationships, ecological and human, but I want to employ another connective metaphor. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

According to Mladen Todorovic, an advisor on sustainable water usage in agriculture and director of Bari’s International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, Puglia’s patchwork of olive groves offers huge potential for a sustainable shift in the industry. But overall, it’s been much less bad than other major growing regions.”

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 27, 2024

Photo credit: Mike Stoll On Friday, March 8 – more than 162 days into the start of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 – Congress finally approved a final FY2024 Agriculture Appropriations bill. This post examines the food and agriculture components of the CAA. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 (CAA, P.L.118-42)

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

This winter, Food Tank is highlighting 20 book to help you broaden your understanding of food and agriculture systems. offers a vision of an agriculture system that is regenerative and free of factory farming systems. His book tells the story of this journey as he bets the farm and embraces a regenerative approach to agriculture.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Tanzania launched its National Ecological Organic Agriculture Strategy in November 2023, Kenya its National Agroecology Strategy in November 2024, and countries like Uganda and Zambia will soon follow suit, noted Fegert. While Kenya focused purely on climate-smart agriculture in its initial NDC, its revised NDC 3.0

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By Lee Rinehart , NCAT Agriculture Specialist I dreamed last night that it rained. Agricultural educators and consultants tell me farms must be profitable to be sustainable. I see red cherry tomatoes deep within the feral foliage in the plot opposite. Focus on net income, they say. Become a savvy marketer. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. This public research and development (R&D) investment is the primary driver of long-term productivity growth in US agriculture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 24, 2024

On July 11, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill with unanimous, bipartisan agreement. Meanwhile, the House bill sets FY25 Agriculture spending at $25.9 Photo credit: USDA.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. Just before midnight on May 24, 2024, the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture voted on the bill. The committee considered the bill in a 13.5-hour

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies. Agriculture and food are not synonymous, but that’s for another day.) No more funding for specialty crops, urban agriculture, conservation, or the Gus Schumacher Healthy Incentives Program.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

She did exactly that at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, created by the state in 1890 to provide agricultural education to Black Americans while maintaining segregation. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tapped her to serve on the its Equity Commission. Working with farmers, she said, was her calling.

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