The Equation
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s. AAS: How are wetlands being threatened? STACY WOODS: The US has lost half of its wetlands since its founding.
The Equation
APRIL 4, 2023
This legislation covers everything from crop insurance to conservation to forestry to nutrition , so over the past few months I’ve been learning a lot! Now that I’ve joined UCS I’ve plunged into the world of food security within the United States, which means I’m looking at the food and farm bill in a whole new light.
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Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.
The Equation
MAY 14, 2024
Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. “That’s something I want to get into.”
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