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New Farm Policy, Jim DiPeso
Cow" (news article, Dec. 11): It didn't take long for the sharks to start circling around Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman. Her thoughtful proposals to move the nation's farm policy into the 21st centuryincluding innovative, flexible conservation assistance to address new environmental concernsstirred up the "business as usual" crowd on Capitol Hill. Ms. Veneman's bracing wind of reform has ...
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American Farmland Trust: Issues and Programs - Farm Policy Campaign Renewable Energy Policies
American Farmland Trust: Issues and Programs - Farm Policy Campaign Renewable Energy Policies Home Donate E-News Signup Contact Site Map Search Help secure our farm bill gains. Donate today to advance ... crops through a green payments program The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) in the farm bill will boost our rural economies, increase our national security by producing homegrown clean energy ...
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American Farmland Trust - Farm Policy Issues and Programs
Policy Issues and Programs Home Donate E-News Signup Contact Site Map Search Farm Policy Issues Our federal farm policy work focuses on the issues and programs that will help save America's best working lands and improve the economic viability of farms and ranches across the nation. Federal farm stewardship and environmental programs AFT works with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural ...
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2007 Farm Bill: Ducks Unlimited
Grasslands Reserve Program is continued with $300 million, but that is less than the previous farm bill. The Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program will exist at the same level as previously and ... landowners on behalf of waterfowl conservation throughout the implementation of the 2008 farm bill and on future farm policy. Ducks Unlimited will continue to seek conservation programs that are beneficial to ...
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Put farm subsidies out to pasture
But two seemingly arcane aspects of farm policy undermine both claims. First, farm subsidy eligibility is restricted to growers of only a few crops. Second ... in desperate poverty. And as Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," has written, farm subsidies contribute to serious health problems and rising healthcare costs by subsidizing corn and soy ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: GRAIN HARVEST - Earth Policy Institute Resources on Food and Agriculture
R. Brown Chapter 7 - Feeding Everyone Well A Status Report Raising Cropland Productivity Raising Water Productivity Restructuring the Protein Economy Eradicating Hunger: A Broad Strategy From The Earth Policy Reader by Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, and Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts Chapter 1 - The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits: Assessing the Food Prospect Soil: Surplus to Deficit The Fast- ...
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Contents of Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble - by Lester R. Brown - Earth Policy Institute - Entering a New World - Restoring the Earth
Contents of Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble - by Lester R. Brown - Earth Policy Institute - Entering a New World - Restoring the Earth Table of Contents Lester R. Brown Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble 2006 Single copy: $17.00 Discounts for multiple copies. Preface (pdf) 1. Entering a New World (pdf) Introduction The ...
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SAF - Policy and Press: Position Statements
America's Family Forests: Your one-stop resource on Facts about Family Owned Forest Lands and on the 2007 Farm Bill Reauthorization. Call for Forest ... SAF Task Forces and National Committees appointed by the SAF Council to study certain issues. State Policy Activity: A great resource to find out more about forestry issues in your state. Contact us ...
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Public Policy
ALUS - Helping Canadian Farmers Help the Ducks Delta Waterfowl Foundation Public Policy Canadian Legislation for Conservation Covenants, Easements, and Servitudes Contact Information | USA Toll Free 888-987-3695 | Canada Toll Free 877-667-5656 | Site Map | ...
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Imagine a mile-square grid of buoys bobbing in the waves, generating energy — the wave farm cometh
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