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For an agriculture decision in 2020 to be meaningful, substantive and truly allow for agriculture to contribute to the 1.5C pathway and become climate resilient, the UNFCCC, governments and IGOs must begin today to make a distinction between agribusiness and agriculture (including the food growers that represent 88 percent of global farmlands).
The 2016 election is bizarre, to say the least. While the vast majority of reporting has focused on the horserace and he said she said aspects of the campaigns, the policy proposals put forward by the candidates will have profound and lasting impacts on the citizens they seek to govern.
At the end of July, trade negotiators and ministers representing 12 Pacific Rim countries failed to reach agreements on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), leaving the negotiations hanging.
From Seattlepi.com
By Scott Sonner
Associated Press Writer
MOSQUITO RIDGE, Calif. -- The Forest Service exaggerated the effect of wildfires on California spotted owls in justifying a planned increase in logging in the Sierra Nevada, according to a longtime agency expert who worked on the plan.
Watch the recording of the panel discussion here.
Join us for a free, in-person documentary film screening followed by a panel discussion on May 23, sponsored by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the University of Minnesotas Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
As part our series on agroecological practices, science and movements, wed like to highlight this story from our partners at ARC20202 in Europe. The German Free Bakers association explains their role in the local food chain and the need for institutional infrastructure as part of the agroecological transformation.