Food Politics

JULY 9, 2024

The decision involves food politics in two ways: (1) the case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, involved fishing, and (2) it has profound implications for food regulations. (1) coli as adulterants, pesticides, herbicides, meat industry consolidation reduction, safe handling instructions, labeling requirements.

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NASDA

MARCH 18, 2024

Our nation’s farmers, applicators, consumers, and other users rely on quality pesticide registration decisions and guidance from federal regulators to allow for the meaningful use of pesticidal tools while ensuring both human health and our environment are protected. million for the operations of EPA-OPP. While FY2024 did provide $1.0

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Heres the announcement: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched its 2024 Statistical Yearbook , offering an in-depth overview of the most significant trends shaping global agrifood systems. Pesticides increased by 70% between 2000 and 2022, with the Americas accounting for half global pesticide use.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Products that may contain EDCs include furniture, toys and children’s products, food packaging, electronics, building materials, cosmetics, and many others. People can also be exposed to EDCs from pesticides, air pollutants, industrial waste, and other pathways. The report reviews the research on pesticides (e.g.,

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 26, 2023

We will hear an interview with Kelvin Heppner of RealAgriculture and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie Claude Bibeau on the decisions made on MRLs and cosmetic pesticide use. Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio with host Shaun Haney! Read More

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Representing State Lead Agencies in 43 states, NASDA members are tasked with numerous elements of pesticide regulation that are immediately impacted by this decision, including the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the production, labeling, distribution, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides under FIFRA.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A global team of journalists recently revealed that agrochemical industry leaders are working to downplay the risks associated with pesticides and discredit and silence critics of these chemicals. It just is so wrong and seems so threatening,” Gillam tells Food Tank. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Organic farming is a method of agriculture that focuses on growing food without using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs

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CABI

JUNE 7, 2024

To mark World Food Safety Day on 7 June, with the theme of the year “Food safety: prepare for the unexpected“ we take a look at the ways in which the PlantwisePlus pesticide risk reduction pathway can contribute to safer food production. In many parts of the world, food safety is not guaranteed.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The EU has classified a small portion of pesticides as hazardous, banning them over health and environmental concerns.

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NASDA

JANUARY 31, 2024

During her time in this position, Josie spearheaded NASDA’s Plant and Pesticides Policy Committee and Rural Development & Financial Security Policy Committee. food and beverage companies reach new global markets. Josie Montoney-Crawford also joined the public policy team in December 2022 as manager of public policy.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Specialty crop export and global food trade are still only a minor part of the worlds food story.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 27, 2024

Recycled content in food packaging is increasing as sustainability advocates press manufacturers to cut their use of virgin plastic. Geueke, who led a review of more than 700 studies on chemicals in plastic food contact items, said that research on recycled plastics is limited. Since 1990, the U.S. The Coca-Cola Co.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Last week, COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, signaled its intent to bring food systems into future COP negotiations. Until now, fixing food systems had hardly been on the environmental agenda, with most attention going to the energy sector. COP28 has shown a new level of commitment to changing food systems.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last year, in the lead-up to COP27, the biggest global convening on climate change, many groups worked to call attention to the fact that governments and businesses were not doing nearly enough to address food and agriculture in their plans to tackle the crisis. Food Systems Summit in 2021. consumers of all kinds,” said Nabarro.

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Food Tank

JULY 24, 2024

to effectively respond to challenges facing the country’s food and agriculture systems. The decision “significantly impacts the future of our national and local food systems by limiting the flexibility of federal agencies like the [U.S. As far as our food system is concerned, we’re at a crucial crossroads.”

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Farming First

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A symposium of 50 global experts has emphasised the need for a circular economy in managing empty pesticide containers in Vietnam and beyond. The post Pesticide Waste: Symposium Paves the Way for Circular Agriculture in Vietnam’s Food System appeared first on Farming First.

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NASDA

MAY 10, 2024

As you begin the fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations process, NASDA asks you to prioritize the following programs that enhance farmers, ranchers, and rural communities and ensure a safe, affordable, and abundant food supply. FIFRA STAG – Pesticide Enforcement Program: $25.58 EPA and U.S.

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NASDA

MAY 10, 2024

As you begin the fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations process, NASDA asks you to prioritize the following programs that enhance farmers, ranchers, and rural communities and ensure a safe, affordable, and abundant food supply. FIFRA STAG – Pesticide Enforcement Program: $25.58 EPA and U.S.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. This may seem like an antiquated concern for chefs in an era of global food distribution systems, but it’s an all-consuming preoccupation for Oyster Oyster, a restaurant named after two ingredients—a bivalve and a mushroom —known for their ecosystem benefits.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

territories to advance agriculture and support farmers and ranchers in producing a safe, affordable and abundant food supply for all.” NASDA enhances American food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement. territories. territories. territories.

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Civil Eats

JULY 3, 2023

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, I spent a lot of time making the case that by reimagining and recreating the food system, we could meet many other societal, community-building, political, and economic goals toward a more sustainable and equitable world. “Producing and utilizing pesticides is not care—it’s anti-care.”

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Here’s a trivia question: Where are the most important transformations in the food system taking place right now? And as Food Tankers know, we don’t just do this work for ourselves. Just take food waste, for example.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

From planting to harvest, farm machinery such as tractors and combines burn diesel fuel to churn out the raw materials for our food system. 1) Agrochemical production consumes fossil fuels to generate pesticides, fertilizers, and other inputs. 4) Transport accounts for about 19% of total food-system emissions. (5)

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

. “This landmark decision will take years to fully play out, but the potential consequences for a host of laws applicable to agriculture, including the Endangered Species Act, wetlands regulation, the Clean Water Act and pesticide regulation cannot be understated,” Pittman said. territories.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Below is a list of definitions for common phrases on food labels. Do you know what “cage-free” means?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding brought on by climate change all have a massive impact on the food system. Farmers are having to adjust what they grow and how they grow it, and people all along the food chainfrom the workers who harvest the crops to the consumers who eat themfeel the effects.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Food systems are about much more than just food. What’s on your plate or in your bowl is important, of course, but food is linked with everything from labor rights and healthcare to social justice and the climate crisis.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For smallholding farmers in developing nations, who grow more than a third of the world’s food, having Plantix on your phone was like having a highly accurate plant pathologist in your back pocket, one who would also present afflicted farmers with options for treatment. million from a group of venture capital investors.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“As co-regulatory partners with EPA committed to preserving environmental stewardship, protecting the rural economy and securing a healthy food supply chain, NASDA commends EPA on issuing an existing stocks order for dicamba that is inclusive of products that are in the possession of growers or in the channels of trade. territories.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. The post Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk?

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Michigan Bits: New pesticide certification website online; MDARD provides grants for food safety program; MSU receives grant to study carbon program impacts on forestry.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Herber tells Food Tank there is a willingness among farmers to go organic, for the sake of the land, their families. Farmers face a mountain of challenges in transitioning to organic or regenerative practices, from figuring out certification to covering costs, Barkley tells Food Tank. According to the U.S.

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The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

Farmworkers face many hazards while performing the labor that props up the $1.264 trillion US food and farm economy, yet a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 The original conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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CABI

AUGUST 1, 2023

Pesticide misuse and overuse threaten food safety. As a result, when outbreaks occur, farmers often rely on pesticides. Pests and diseases significantly constrain productivity and… The post Mitigating pesticide risks for safer produce in Kenya: challenges and recommendations appeared first on PlantwisePlus Blog.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 30, 2025

Also from the New York Times: What We Know (and Dont Know) About Forever Chemicals in Food exposure can increase the risk of prostate, kidney and testicular cancers. Consumer Reports detects PFAS in some milk The politics: from Civil Eats: Why Are Pesticide Companies Fighting State Laws to AddressPFAS?

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