Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Food is history Food access has always been an issue close to home for me. The lack of nourishing food for my community, increased access to nutritional information, and access to land are the main reasons I personally wanted to start farming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

For the average US consumer, this may mean fewer or more expensive strawberries in the grocery store, but for the people of Pajaro, this means a loss of income and livelihood, which can have dramatic consequences for their housing and food security.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Among those is the growing risk that the chaos up-ends agriculture on a large scale —affecting markets for oil seeds, wheat, and other cereal grains, as well as fertilizers derived from natural gas, with effects that ripple across the world. A food crisis may begin in Ukraine, but it won’t end there. When combined with Russia’s 18.4

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 25, 2024

Photo credit: USDA Last week, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) announced that it will partner with Reinvestment Fund, a national mission-driven financial institution, to fund 16 public-private partnerships. HFFI was established by the 2014 Farm Bill and expanded in the 2018 Farm Bill.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air. Agricultural employees are excluded from the protections of the National Labor Relations Act. But CARB has the opportunity to change course now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Our food systems are set up to produce cheap calories to the detriment of the environment and our communities. Farmworkers are facing health risks and food insecurity. Farmworkers are facing health risks and food insecurity. For many, food choice is a heavily constrained choice. And our communities are getting sick.

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National Law Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On November 2, 2023, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Ass’n v. The post Eighth Circuit Ruling Revives Foods Uses for Chlorpyrifos appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

What Is Agricultural Use? not going to environmental uses), agriculture uses a whopping 80%. It really overstates the issue. And it obscures the issue by dismissing it as an “agricultural” use. We all know the story, and the percentages: of water used by human beings in California (i.e.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution. The Central Valley produces about 25% of our nation’s food , despite occupying just 1% of nationwide farmland. Annual average PM2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2023

Does community solar on agricultural land make sense? California’s current agricultural practices aren’t sustainable. To transition to a more sustainable agricultural system, we’ll need to retire some of this cropland. Take the San Joaquin Valley, an incredibly profitable agricultural region in California.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Omair Ahmad Indian farmers are pushing for the legalisation of a historic pricing mechanism that built India’s food security, but the problems they face demand far more. The country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, bluntly stated that “everything can wait, but not agriculture.”

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Nanotech

MARCH 29, 2024

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a report on March 22, 2024, on “Gene-Edited Plants: Regulation and Issues for Congress.” Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Gene-edited plants are regulated under the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

To transform our food systems, we need to produce food that is sustainable and nutritious instead of the cheap calories served by industrial mega-corporations. In the United States, approximately 10% of households experience food insecurity; in Black households it’s 20%, and in Hispanic households it’s 15%.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Photo credit: Lindsey Scalera With spring on the horizon, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a number of funding opportunities for sustainable agriculture. For more detailed information on these and other USDA grant programs, see NSAC’s Grassroots Guide to Federal Food and Farm Programs.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Over the past year, this parched landscape has grown even more barren, as the country’s worst drought in over four decades has ravaged food supplies, sweeping hunger throughout the region. . Over one million people in southern Madagascar need food urgently. The drought’s human toll is enormous.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet it can seem daunting to stay up to date on every current issue important in our democracy, especially when it comes to the ever-changing landscape of scientific information. The topics included public health, climate change, gun control, education, food security, and immigration.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

Record-high global food prices coincide with failed harvests. In the Somali region of Ethiopia, at a newly established site where people displaced by the recent drought are staying, many women and children are in desperate need of food, water, and health services. A global food price index reached a record high in March.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2023

His research focuses on the intersection of digitalization and climate change, environmental degradation, and the future of food production. His current project explores precision agriculture in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Much of his work involved what we now call regenerative agriculture. The Park Service credits him with establishing “that it was critical to both the parks and private landowners to settle contentious property rights issues, paving a foundation for later land acquisition.” Young was a staunch advocate of conserving these parks.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Guest Post by Sam Leuthold , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a shift in the general popularity of agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 12, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

But for states like California, with large populations, an ambitious and necessary clean energy timeline , and ongoing natural resource issues , where to actually build these projects will require thoughtful planning. Agricultural lands Agricultural land makes up more than half of California’s private lands.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The application of excess fertilizer is a practice that must end across the agricultural industry, as it is a key contributor to the persistent issue of toxic algae blooms in freshwater ecosystems. What protections exist in Ontario to protect the Great Lakes from agricultural runoff and nutrient pollution?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. The NCA5 covers a lot of ground, but this summary focuses on aspects most relevant to agriculture.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Author: Rafa Tasnim Dr Rachel E Schattman is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture , where she leads a group of graduate students and staff scientists in the Agroecology Lab. I did not start my career in agriculture with this in mind though.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

His research examines how digital technologies are ushering in a new form of environmental governance within food systems, specifically as it relates to sustainability assurance within aquaculture. As a result, Kruk explains, environmental issues are commonly framed in terms of their biophysical characteristics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARB’s use of the LCFS as a cash cow to fund manure digesters is bad transportation fuel policy and bad agricultural policy. Blurring together the impact on transportation and agriculture creates confusion and leads to exaggerated claims of the benefits of manure digesters. Dairy Farming highlights that “[t]he number of licensed U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

As a result, the SWRCB issued curtailment orders months after they were warranted. In 2021, curtailments would have been warranted beginning in April, but the SWRCB didn’t adopt emergency regulations requiring maintenance of drought minimum flows until mid-August 2021, finally issuing curtailment orders in early September.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 12, 2024

Plastic pollution is a pressing environmental issue, and University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment researchers are leading the charge with an innovative solution. Read the full story from the University of Kentucky.

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MARCH 21, 2022

Shutting off the canal forced Crimea into a perennial state of water rationing and withered agriculture in the formerly verdant peninsula. . The need for clean water, for food, for shelter is increasingly challenging under these very hostile conditions,” James Denselow of Save the Children UK told France24.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Beginning with the start of FY2024 on October 1, funding for the federal government will – absent a continuing resolution (CR) – expire, as will the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill. And, the two proposals could not be more different.

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Cleannovate

JULY 15, 2022

Food is a tool of manipulation…political manipulation for that matter (think of the rising costs of flour and cooking oil at the moment). GROW YOUR OWN FOOD. With over 75% of Africa’s population being considered young, there is more responsibility in store for the youth in the agricultural front. Let me explain.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2015 on a single lot in East Boston, this urban farm has expanded to seven sites and is working to build climate adaptation and mitigation into urban farming, while offering education , green job training , green space , community gathering space , and affordable locally and regionally grown food.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. The agriculture that he and some 850 other county farmers practice earns roughly $260 million annually, more than most of the state’s other big farm counties. And like other growers engaged in American agriculture, St.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

The United Nations climate panel issued a blunt and urgent warning to the world on Monday. Unless people adapt to rapid environmental change and greenhouse gas emissions are slowed, the risks to biodiversity, water security, food production, infrastructure stability, and health are much higher toward the end of the century.

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