Sustainable Agriculture

We need to tame Wall Street and Big Ag to empower carbon farmers

Also posted at the Roosevelt Institute

Family Farm Action rally challenges U.S. presidential candidates

On March 30, Midwest farmers rallied in Storm Lake, Iowa, calling for legislators and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement a nine article Farmers Bill of Rights which would aspire to, among others actions, enforce fair market practices and natural resource conservation rules.

The real future of agriculture

Last month, Woody Johnson, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, called the U.S.

State soil health initiatives respond to climate change

It’s still winter in the U.S., but that’s not stopping states from looking into how the soil beneath the snow can respond to climate change. Massachusetts, New Mexico and Nebraska are following the lead set by states like California, Ha

Farm Bill appropriations and implementation: Conservation and local food programs

In late December 2018, President Trump signed the $867 billion Farm Bill into law.

Fair prices and a bold new deal in Mexico

The Mexican government and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are advancing plans to transform its agriculture system to achieve self-sufficiency in basic grains and strengthen rural livelihoods.

Bold and urgent Green New Deal may change Washington's climate change inertia

The following was first published in The Hill on January 31, 2019.

The U.S. Climate Alliance: Slow to act on agriculture

After the Trump administration announced plans to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the governors of 18 states and Puerto Rico formed the U.S. Climate Alliance (Illinois and New Mexico joined in January).

Stop Meat Companies from Rigging the Grass-fed Market

Food companies have a long history of keeping consumers in dark about the origins of their food. But outright deception is another level of darkness. There are strong signs that global meat companies are taking advantage of a loophole to label imported beef, particularly grass-fed, as “Product of U.S.A.”