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Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (video)
Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society.
Seeds Of Life: Open Pollination (video)
Willamette Valley organic seed breeder, Frank Morton, explains the benefits of open pollination in plant breeding.
Seeds Of Life: Hybrids and the Emergence of Seed Monopolies (video)
For almost all of agriculture existence, farmers were largely the stewards of the land and the crops that they grew.
Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing-an Overview (video)
In Raj Patel’s new book, The Value of Nothing, Patel explains what it means to have corporate monopolies that can manipulate both price and supply, coupled to a “free market” philosophy…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announces $310 million in Recovery Act funds for rural broadband projects
January 25, 2010 “Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of fourteen Recovery Act Broadband Infrastructure projects that will receive $309,923,352 through funding made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. An additional $3,551,887 in private investment brings the total to $313,475,239. Altogether, Congress awarded USDA $2.5 billion in Recovery Act funding to [...]
Growing Local Campaign: From Field To Fork
From American Farmland Trust, a short video about what producing local food means to communities, and why it is so important a goal to accomplish. The American Farmland Trust is a non-profit organization that began with farmers and conservationists in 1980, whose central purpose is to protect valuable farmland from being lost. Working across Federal, [...]