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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
Everyone at the table: local foods and the farm bill
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - 3/29/2012.
By JoAnne Berkenkamp and Bill Wenzel – The local foods movement in the United States has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade, but still represents a small portion of the overall food system. How can local food systems continue to grow and remain sustainable?
Put your money where your mouth is: funding food with Kickstarter
Grist - 3/29/2012.
By Sarah Henry – Edible entrepreneur/video editor Dafna Kory is an ideal candidate for a food-focused Kickstarter campaign. Kory, founder of Inna Jam, an organic artisan preserves company in Berkeley, Calif., supplements her budding food business with commercial film, video, and web editing gigs and is well-acquainted with the crowd-funding platform.
Beekeepers to EPA: we’re running out of time
Grist - 3/29/2012.
By Claire Thompson – Beekeepers have been concerned that pesticides are to blame for the bee die-offs devastating their industry for a while now. As we reported recently, their losses have spiraled out of control, putting not just the beekeepers but our entire agricultural system in peril.
Organic farmers appeal decision in Monsanto lawsuit
Portland Press Herald - 3/29/2012.
By Avery Yale Kamila – Organic farmers filed an appeal Wednesday in a case challenging chemical giant Monsanto’s patents on genetically-modified seeds. The appeal seeks to reinstate the case that was dismissed in February by U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York before it went to court.
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