Items Tagged with 'national security'

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.

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.

Ambassador Kip Tom, Secretary Sonny Perdue, Chef José Andrés, and retired General William E. (Kip) Ward, former Commander of the United States Africa Command, are part of an all-star lineup of speakers who will explore crucial links between food security and national security.

Senators Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., Angus King, I-Maine, Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Joe Manchin, D-W.V., Steve Daines, R-Mont., Tina Smith, D-Minn., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., introduce the New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act. A bipartisan bill, which would allow meat and poultry products inspected by state Meat and Poultry Inspection (MPI) programs to be sold across state lines.

The Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on imported steel, which resulted in retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of farm goods, has survived a constitutional challenge in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

An American Food Security Strategy is an imperative factor in reducing the multiple threats impacting our National wellbeing.

There are some twenty million people at risk of starvation, according to the United Nations. It is the world's most severe humanitarian crisis we have faced since 1945.