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Project 2025 Spells Out Big Changes to US Agriculture - Civil Eats
Jul 22, 2024 · As of March 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, more than 301,000 farms had close to 25 million acres enrolled in CRP; that’s a lot of acreage, but it represents less than 3 percent of U.S. farmland.. Project 2025, a conservative Republican presidential transition blueprint spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, proposes eliminating CRP.
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How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming
Nov 2, 2020 · In 2017, the EPA reversed an Obama-era ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide the agency previously determined was linked to brain damage in children. After battling lawsuits, the agency reaffirmed the decision in 2019 and in 2020, it released a new assessment of the pesticide that excluded several studies and found the science on its dangers “remains unresolved.”
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If the plan succeeds, it will help rebuild wetlands and food sources for the tribe, once largely excluded from environmental decision-making.
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Lisa Held. Lisa Held is Civil Eats’ senior staff reporter and a contributing editor. Since 2015, she has reported on agriculture and the food system with an eye toward sustainability, equality, and health, and her stories have appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones.In the past, she covered health …
Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others …
Aug 20, 2022 · Carrots, baby kale, and spinach never tasted so sweet. After emerging from a multi-year legal battle over gardening, Nicole Virgil is looking forward to cultivating those vegetables and more this winter in her backyard.Growing one’s own food, central to human existence for millennia, has suddenly become a hot-button topic in some communities.
Farming - Civil Eats
Nov 25, 2016 · In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved—and is taking back his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
12 Native-Owned Food Businesses to Support | Civil Eats
Oct 12, 2020 · To be Tanka means to “live life powerfully” in Lakota. Native American Natural Foods has set out to do just this by providing sustainably grown products that are minimally processed and made by Native American producers.
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