Farm Bill

Resilience means taking the long view on climate change

In our final “Climate change, agriculture and resilience” video—the series we’ve been publishing all week in the lead up to the MOSES Organic Farming conference—it’s all about being different.

In a changing climate, farming’s a risky business

Farming is risky for anyone: volatile markets and unpredictable weather can make planning and execution from season to season a difficult prospect. Make that double with the extreme weather climate change is bringing. Sure, there is crop insurance in some cases, but what about farmers like Mike Brownfield?

Climate change meets resilience: Real farmers solving real climate problems with sustainable solutions

Update: All five videos are now available at the following links: 

Farm Bill free fall

Just when you thought Congress couldn’t screw up the Farm Bill any worse, they surprise us all.

At the intersection of the fiscal cliff, health and the Farm Bill

 

Government's seat at the dinner table

This piece is an introduction to a new collection of commentaries by the IATP Food and Community Fellows, originally published on www.foodandcommunityfellows.org.

What an expiring Farm Bill means to you

It has always been an amusing pastime for agricultural policy wonks to envision what would happen if a Farm Bill was allowed to expire. Nobody actually thought that it could come to fruition; after all, the uncertainty that it would impose on farmers and agricultural markets would be too great for Congress not to act on passing a new Farm Bill.