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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
A measure of world food commodity costs fell for the sixth month in a row in September, led by lower prices for vegetable oils and dairy and meat products that offset gains in grain markets.
A $250 million research initiative on using food as medicine is among $8 billion in private-sector commitments being announced today in conjunction with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
The Agriculture Department’s tracking of foreign land ownership relies heavily on investors to voluntarily report acquisitions, but enforcement cases have dropped dramatically even as the number of transactions has surged over the past decade, according to an analysis of USDA data.
In this opinion piece, Michelle McMurry-Heath, Ph.D., with the Biotechnology Innovation Organization discusses the need to strengthen food security through innovation.
A member of the House Agriculture Committee wrote a letter Monday to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack with questions about data on foreign land purchases within the United States.
In this opinion piece, Prof. P. V. Vara Prasad, Ph. D., of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI) discusses recent research that produced a new global sustainability framework for agricultural innovation.
In this opinion piece, Dan Glickman, former Secretary of Agriculture during the Clinton administration, says it’s time for agriculture to take the lead on climate change action.
China’s push to achieve self-sufficiency, which has incentivized the nation to purchase, and even steal, agricultural assets in other countries, could present risks to the economic and national security of the United States, warns a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
The Departments of Agriculture and Interior are out with a handful of new programs they say will enhance the federal government’s effectiveness in serving tribal audiences.