ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

had — with my permission granted over cell phone — left for the two-hour drive back to our motel in Keene where we were giving a week-long Armed to Farm workshop to military veterans scheduled to start the next day. So, it’s ecological or cybernetic or complexly interrelated, but it is not magic. It was a Sunday night around 11 p.m.

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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. water resources.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

As younger generations leave for better opportunities or turn to other professions, and older generations pass on, the traditional ways of life and farming are becoming increasingly less common. In the 10 years from 2010-2020 alone, the number of farms in Italy shrunk by one-third. But recently it has gotten worse.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

As your committees consider Appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for FY2026, we respectfully request $1.877 billion for ARS salaries and expenses, which represents a five percent increase over the FY2025 level.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

As your committees consider Appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for FY2026, we respectfully request $1.877 billion for ARS salaries and expenses, which represents a five percent increase over the FY2025 level.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

A Farm Bill Opinion Piece by Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University In a recent New York Review of Books essay , I argued that few non-farmers – which is most of the U.S. population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies.

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Farming Farming Ecology Ruralism 53

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 27, 2024

Unfortunately, despite the importance of on-the-ground support for farmers seeking to implement and enhance on-farm conservation, the CAA provides only $773,495,000 (-3%) for CTA, down from $800,892,000 in FY2023. Finally, the CAA sends a confusing message to NRCS on how to conduct outreach to Historically Underserved producers.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism Rural Development 59

Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

offers a vision of an agriculture system that is regenerative and free of factory farming systems. A Bold Return to Giving A Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Will Harris When author Will Harris inherited his family’s farm, he also took on the conventional practices that came with it.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) , United States FLOC empowers farm workers to have a voice in decisions that impact them.

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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. Recent Agricultural Census data further shows how value-added products can greatly increase farm revenue.

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Agriculture Agriculture Production Food 59

Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

For example, livestock production, fertilizer use and deforestation for farm expansion exacerbate greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. This is good farming,” I say as I scope the field borders where the tall grasses give way to a wooded tree line in the distance. Agricultural educators and consultants tell me farms must be profitable to be sustainable.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

I didnt go in there with the mindset that we were going to flip the USDA upside down, said Ammons, now the co-executive director of Farm Aid , a nonprofit organization and festival that supports small family farms. Ammons spoke to Civil Eats from a farm conference in D.C., Its just cruel and inhumane.

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