Tag: USDA
USDA ends school food program halting more than $1 billion in...
Two program providing schools and food banks with money to buy from local farmers and ranchers were recently ended by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Big agriculture’s dangerous role in spreading the next pandemic
Bird flu spreads through industrial farms while U.S. leaders prioritize big agriculture over public health.
How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship works to uproot racism in the...
This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system.
USDA invests $121 million to solve challenges facing specialty crop and...
The investment is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) $82.3 million in grant funding through the Agricultural Marketing Service.
USDA to distribute $2.2 billion in funding to Black farmers who...
The Biden administration announced it will distribute $2.2 billion in financial assistance to 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who were discriminated against in the agency's farm lending programs.
USDA awards $9.7 million for 13 grant projects through Organic Market...
These projects will support the development of new and existing organic markets benefiting more than 119 million producers, buyers, and consumers.
USDA announces proposal to reinstate protections for Tongass National Forest
While the Trump administration tried to open 9.2 million acres of the forest to logging and roadbuilding, the USDA's proposal will effectively reinstate the protections for Tongass National Forest.
Food insecurity soared roughly 9% last year for Americans
While the Biden administration approved the largest expansion of food benefits the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has ever seen, “transformational change” still needs to be a focus.
USDA makes historic increase for SNAP benefits
“A modernized Thrifty Food Plan is more than a commitment to good nutrition – it’s an investment in our nation’s health, economy, and security.”
USDA may allow genetically modified trees to be released into the...
“Our natural forests that support wildlife and the economic sovereignty of rural communities will rapidly be replaced with tree plantations for wood pellets, paper and more, leaving environmental and climate injustice in their wake.”
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.