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Letter supporting farm bill orphan programs

NASDA

As American agriculture continues to face complex challenges, including supply chain disruptions, increasingly volatile weather conditions, new pest and disease pressures, labor shortages, and food security threats, it is imperative that these programs are not left behind as farm bill negotiations continue.

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IPES-Food Report Highlights the Importance of Territorial Markets

Food Tank

It finds that territorial markets can help build food security and resilience across the globe in a system corrupted by corporate-controlled supply chains. Territorial markets offer an alternative to corporate-controlled supply chains and an avenue to a resilient global food system, the report states.

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From Faltering to Flourishing: Local Food Supply Chains are Making a Comeback 

Agritecture Blog

With painful disruptions caused by fluctuating demand, shipping bottlenecks, and labor shortages, supply chains are becoming a new topic of conversation at dinner tables across the country. How does a family shop for food in the age of climate and pandemic crises? Expanding the reach of a more competitive, resilient food system.

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Opinion: Why the Farm Bill Isn’t Prioritizing the Right Things

Modern Farmer

The societal cost, meaning the hidden costs associated with poor labor conditions such as child labor or unlivable wages, of our food supply chains is estimated at around $100 billion. Our food system depends on cheap labor that consists predominantly of migrant workers, of which half are estimated to be undocumented.

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Opinion: Canada’s Ag Policies Need to Better Serve Local Farmers and Communities

Modern Farmer

Farmer-researcher Eric Barnhorst, for example, conducted research on regenerating fallow fields with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario in 2022. There should be room for the promotion of agro-ecological and organic farming practices.

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In Search of Sustainable Fragrance

Modern Farmer

To shed some light on this topic, I spoke with Dr. Anjanette DeCarlo, who serves as chief sustainability scientist at the Aromatic Plant Research Center, where she conducts field research and ecological supply chain analysis on aromatic species. Greenwashing and misrepresentative labeling are also a problem.

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Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster

Civil Eats

This allowed captains to sell their lobster as if it were cage-caught and for that lie to be told all the way through the supply chain, until it was comingled at processing facilities. Honduran spiny lobster is a $46.7 million industry , exported almost entirely to U.S. He added that it takes years to be effective.