Agriculture

Closed out: How U.S. farmers are denied access to conservation programs

According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), between 2010 and 2020, just 31% of farmers who applied to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and only 42% of farmers who applied to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) were awarded contracts. Overall, EQIP turned down 946,459 contracts and CSP denied 146,425 contracts, at least partially for lack of funds.

Farmers in all 50 states routinely closed out of climate-friendly conservation programs, new report

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that 67% of farmers who applied to access critical government conservation programs from 2010-2020 were rejected, due in part to lack of funding.

Companies: dominating the market from farm to display case

Read the full Meat Atlas 2021: Facts and figures about the animals we eat, by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Friends of the Earth Europe and BUND. The following is an excerpt contributed by IATP.

African civil society publicly challenges Green Revolution backers

The following article was originally published by Food Tank on September 7, 2021. 

[WATCH] AFSA Press Conference — Million Belay

  Presentation by Million Belay, PhD, general coordinator, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, during the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)'s press conference on September 2, 2021. 

[WATCH] AFSA Press Conference — Anne Maina

Presentation by Anne Maina, national coordinator, Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya, during the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)'s press conference on September 2, 2021. 

[WATCH] AFSA Press Conference — Francesca de Gasparis

Presentation by Francesca de Gasparis, executive director, Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute, during the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)'s press conference on September 2, 2021. 

[WATCH] AFSA Press Conference — Mariann Bassey

Presentation by Mariann Bassy, coordinator Food Sovereignty Program, Friends of the Earth Africa, during the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)'s press conference on September 2, 2021. 

Fiddling in Nairobi while Africa goes hungry

The following article was originally published by IPS News on August 31, 2021.  As the United Nations gears up for its Food Systems Summit September 23, the urgent need for structural changes in how we grow, harvest, distribute, and consume food has never been more apparent.

Regulate global meat and dairy companies, cut methane and avoid climate breakdown

Stringent methane reductions in the near term are vital to curbing global warming, state hundreds of scientists through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest report on the physical understanding of the climate system and climate change.