Tag: Farming
Why the Health of Tens of Millions Depends on the US-Mexico Tortilla War
Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet?
If sovereignty means anything, the answer to these questions is yes. Defending food supplies is an ancient cornerstone of the social contract, one enshrined in 21st-century trade pacts, including the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the successor to NAFTA. In December 2023, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador invoked this right … Read more
One of the world’s earliest farming villages housed surprisingly few people
A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust.
At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large numbers of multi-roomed, mud-brick structures cluster in several parts of a settlement that covers an area equivalent to nearly 26 U.S. football fields. Since its discovery in the 1960s, population estimates for the ancient settlement have ranged from 2,800 to 10,000.
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Big Ag’s Latest Blow to Workers’ Rights
It took two marches from the southern San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento, and months of mobilization and pressure on Governor Gavin Newsom, to get a “card check” law for farmworkers. In the end, though, on September 28, 2022, he signed AB 2183, giving California’s field workers the best agricultural labor law in the country.
Today, that law is in danger. In a courthouse in Visalia, a small city in the heart of Republican grower country, a hearing opened last week … Read more
Wie Carbon Farming den Abbau und die Einnahmen steigern soll – EURACTIV.com
Europa möchte die in seiner Natur gespeicherte Kohlenstoffmenge erhöhen, aber Land- und Forstwirte müssen auch mit Prozessen Geld verdienen, die dazu beitragen, dass Land mehr Kohlenstoff bindet.
Die CO2-Landwirtschaft wird als eine Möglichkeit angesehen, diese Lücke zu schließen und Land- und Forstwirte für nachhaltige Praktiken finanziell zu entschädigen.
Landwirtschaftsorganisationen beschreiben darunter Praktiken, die Kohlenstoff binden, die Verlagerung von CO2-Emissionen verhindern und die Emissionen landwirtschaftlicher Praktiken reduzieren.
Allerdings wollen Umweltorganisationen eine strenge Definition, die sich auf die Entfernung von Biodiversität beschränkt
Only a Social Movement Can Win Real Immigration Reform
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September 1, 2023
Activists marched for three days straight, demanding that Congress finally change the immigration registry date.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Sahuayo, a small city of factories and craftspeople near Michoacan’s Lake Chapala, could not provide enough work to support its growing population. People had
French minister blasts NGOs’ ‘permanent spirit of demolition’ on EU farming subsidies – EURACTIV.com
NGOs are suing the European Commission for having approved France’s national plan for implementing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) despite allegedly breaching EU law – a move that French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau called a “destructive battle”.
Read the original French article here.
The French national plan, a roadmap detailing how subsidies are to be used to achieve the CAP’s objectives, was validated by the Commission on 31 August 2022. In November of the same year, British NGO ClientEarth and
Commission clueless on impact of environmental farming exemptions amid further requests – EURACTIV.com
The European Commission is in the process of considering whether to grant further farming exemptions from environmental measures following requests from member states, although it does not yet have a clear idea about the impact of previous derogations on food security.
In efforts to counter the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU previously allowed temporary derogations from certain environmental requirements in the EU’s farming subsidy programme, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in both 2022 and 2023.
The temporary
Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Rassismus mit Reis bekämpfen
Rezension: Ted Hearnes „Farming“ ist eine süße, traurige amerikanische Elegie
Die Google-Suchergebnisse haben mir dieses Wochenende das Herz gebrochen.
Was seltsam war, denn sie enthielten nichts übermäßig Emotionales. Es waren Zeilen wie: „Ja, wir haben geöffnet. Rufen Sie noch heute unsere Berater an.“ Und: „Zuverlässige Saisonarbeitskräfte.“ So etwas bekommt man, wenn man nach dem „H-2A-Visumprogramm“ sucht, das Landarbeitern eine vorübergehende Einreise in die Vereinigten Staaten gewährt.
Doch untermalt von Ted Hearnes „Farming“ mit gefühlvoller, fast retro-musikalischer Doo-Wop-Musik, schienen diese langweiligen Fragmente den Kern unseres Landes zu berühren: seine raubgierige Wirtschaft,