Farm Bill
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For the past 75 years, ever since the New Deal programs of the Roosevelt administration, federal policy makers have taken an active role in agriculture. Every five to seven years, agricultural policies are evaluated and reauthorized through the federal Farm Bill. The last bill was passed in 2007; the next is expected in 2012. The larger public is discovering that policies in the Farm Bill affect not just farmers here and around the world, but rural communities, the environment, health, hunger and even immigration. Literally everyone has a stake in the Farm Bill.
IATP has been fighting for a fair, healthy and sustainable Farm Bill for more than 25 years. In our new What’s at Stake series, we analyze how the Farm Bill affects issues we all care about.
Planting for the Future: Health and the Farm Bill
The latest in our What's at Stake in the 2012 Farm Bill series: Health and the U.S. Farm Bill.
This Land, Our Land: Rural Development, Energy and Conservation in the Farm Bill
The latest in our What's at Stake in the U.S. Farm Bill series takes a look at rural development, energy and conservation.
Enough to Eat: Food Assistance and the Farm Bill
Food assistance and the Farm Bill: With the economy in uncertain times, food assistance is as vital as ever for many around the United States.
New IATP series: What's at stake in the 2012 Farm Bill?
In our new What’s at Stake? series, IATP analyzes how the 2012 Farm Bill will affect issues we all care about.
URGENT: Act today to ensure Senate's Farm Bill supports healthy food for all
Take action now to make sure the Farm Bill supports healthy food for all.2012 Farm Bill: What's at Stake?
A collection of IATP's work on the 2012 Farm Bill.
Understanding the Farm Bill
The U.S. Farm Bill leaves a huge footprint on the U.S. and the world. As Washington gears up for the debate, IATP analyzes what’s at stake.
The Farm Bill, even if it were vastly improved, is the wrong vehicle to create a just and sustainable food and farm policy, yet it takes up all the policy space. At the same time an exciting and growing grassroots movement is championing a just, local and healthy food system. What’s missing is the policy expertise to tackle structural barriers to an alternate system – and get the bigger challenges that the Farm Bill misses. IATP proposes a multi-year project to tackle these big challenges, and build consensus around a policy-based strategy for a better food system.
IATP has partnered with ARC 2020 in Europe, a multi-stakeholder platform, of over 150 organizations within 22 EU Member States all pushing for a profound reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2013.
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