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The Commons: A Story of Reworking an Old Idea for Next-Generation Farmers
One of humanity’s oldest ideas about land is helping new farmers who can’t afford to buy in — so why is it being undercut by the USDA?
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America’s Great Farmland Handoff, in Charts
Who Will Farm the Land? America’s Great Farmland Handoff, in Charts
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19 Reasons to Care about Covid-19 for Life
Because the world (still) needs it, here’s a list intended to combat ignorance and spur curiosity about where to focus our efforts to promote recovery and resilience.
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VICTORY: We Sued the Trump Administration and Won
In March, Agrarian Trust joined a dozen other nonprofits and six cities to file a lawsuit to defend federal funding for critical public investments in our food system, renewable energy, and affordable housing.
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America’s Poorest Places: 60 Years After the War on Poverty, in Maps
Sixty years after America declared a war on poverty, a little-appreciated measure helps explain why and where poverty persists in the country today.
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Climate voters are the future of the Democratic Party. Don’t shortchange them.
Against the odds, a youth-led mobilization has succeeded in placing the climate crisis at the forefront.
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Featured in YES! Magazine: For a Cooler Climate, Focus on Food and Agriculture
Originally published by YES! Magazine The global food system is responsible for more emissions than previously thought, according to a new United Nations report. It may also hold a key to reversing climate change. Agriculture as usual is putting the climate at risk as “unprecedented rates” of land and freshwater resources are used to fuel
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ICYMI: Under Contract Featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
For the first time in a feature-length documentary, contract farmers speak out and experts reveal how the corporate production model pits farmer against farmer In the U.S. alone, 97% of the chicken produced is raised by family farmers under contract with large companies. Around the world and all across agriculture, contract farming is taking hold.