Tag: Agriculture
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6 Initiatives That Empower Women in Agriculture
Farmers and farmers groups, researchers and scientists, and government leaders and policy-makers from across the continent are gathered to better understand family farming in North America and to agree upon common recommendations for the development and support of family farmers in the U.S. and Mexico. The dialogue also hopes to identify the key challenges family farmers face…
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Big Food Lobby Discloses List of Donors in GE Food Labeling Initiative 522
After the Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed suit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) last week for violating state election disclosure requirements, the lobby group published a list of their major donors on Friday, according to Cornucopia Institute. Ferguson alleged the GMA illegally collected and spent more than $7 million in opposition to Initiative 522, while…
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Staunch GE Food Advocate Urges Industry to Embrace GMO Labeling
By Alex Formuzis Mark Lynas—maybe the most famous apologist for GMO foods ever—this week urged a gathering of food and biotech industry employees to stop battling the growing movement to label foods made with genetically engineered ingredients. Lynas shocked his audience, convened for a food packing and processing confab called the Center for Food Integrity Summit, when he…
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World Food Day: Cook Organic, Not the Planet
Ronnie Cummins “Here’s the single most important thing you need to know about the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report: it’s not too late. We still have time to do something about climate disruption. The best estimate from the best science is that we can limit warming from human-caused carbon pollution to less than…
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Fights Over Food Stamps and Commodity Insurance Stall Farm Bill
Following the Fourth of July holiday, Congress will pick up where they left off and will—for better or for worse—decide the fate of U.S. agriculture for the next five years.