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Oct 3, 2018

Washington state's proposed carbon fee: What it could mean for agriculture

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Ben Lilliston
“What happens when extreme weather becomes more frequent? Laborers will lose work hours due to this,” a farmworker told Community to Community at a Vancouver, Washington listening session on climate change last year.
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Oct 3, 2018

Uprooted Episode 45: The NAFTA 2.0 Text... U-S-M-C-A!

Late on Sunday evening the text of the re-negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement was released, renamed the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
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Sep 26, 2018

#AgTechTakeback - L'Atelier Paysan on self-build communities in farming

As the role of technology increases in farming and food, and corporate powers use this to extend their power, we need to strive for technological developments that are appropriate for farmers, for eaters and for the planet. Welcome to #AgTechTakeback.
l'Atelier Paysan
Sep 25, 2018

#AgTechTakeback - Neither neoluddism nor corporate ag

As the role of technology increases in farming and food, and corporate powers use this to extend their power, we need to strive for technological developments that are appropriate for farmers, for eaters and for the planet. Welcome to #AgTechTakeback.
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Sep 17, 2018

USDA reorganization 2.0: Cut researchers, cut research

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former director of strategy, aimed to “deconstruct the administrative state.” The means of deconstruction are by now a familiar litany:
USDA Building
Sep 14, 2018

More than 300 State Legislators Urge Removing Corporate-Friendly ISDS Provisions from NAFTA

by
Sharon Anglin Treat
Earlier this week, U.S. state legislators released a letter signed by 312 lawmakers from all 50 states urging an end to the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system in the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Maine State House
Sep 13, 2018

'This Is Life or Death for Us': Mexico's Farm Movement Rejects New NAFTA Agreement

The smooth ride to a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may have just hit the bumpy roads of rural Mexico. On Tuesday, leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new agreement announced between the United States and Mexico, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement.
'This Is Life or Death for Us': Mexico's Farm Movement Rejects New NAFTA Agreement
Sep 12, 2018

Uprooted Episode 44: The Affordable Clean Energy Rule

Josh talks with Tara Ritter about the rollback of the Clean Power Plan, which was proposed by the Obama administration and held up in the courts. The replacement, the Affordable Clean Energy Rule is a thinly veiled attempt to prop up the dying coal industry at the expense of the expanding clean energy sector, including the job boom it would create in rural areas. 
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