By Ahna Kruzic, Communications Director of Pesticides Action Network North America Original post Globally, today’s food and agriculture systems are responsible for more climate change-contributing emissions than the world’s cars, trucks, planes, and trains combined. At the same time, we’re confronted with evidence that climate change is wreaking havoc on agricultural production—and unraveling systems of… Read more »
September 18, 2019
A Green New Deal for Food and Farming
By Ahna Kruzic, Communications Director of Pesticides Action Network North America Original post Globally, today’s food and agriculture systems are responsible for more climate change-contributing emissions than the world’s cars, trucks, planes, and trains combined. At the same time, we’re confronted with evidence that climate change is wreaking havoc on agricultural production—and unraveling systems of… Read more »
The Food Research and Action Center just released this summary of the USDA Economic Research Service report, which highlights the state of hunger in the United States. This comes in the middle of a gathering of hundreds food pantry, food bank, and anti-hunger activists from around the country here at the Closing the Hunger Gap…