Elite donors have forced a “Green Revolution” upon Africa in recent years that has failed to improve local agriculture sectors as promised and instead “increased farm input costs, farmer indebtedness, and inequalities among farmers,” environmental experts writing for the non-profit media outlet The Conversation reported on Monday.
Farmers are unhappy with the prospect of Biden’s EPA reversing Trump’s protections from harsh water regulations under the Clean Water Act.
John Kerry said Monday the United States doesn’t “necessarily’ have to stop eating red meat due to America’s emissions from agriculture.
Boris Johnson’s government is scrapping the ‘Pick for Britain’ drive for British farm workers and increasing migrant recruitment to 30,000, with hundreds to come from the likes of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
The Communist Party of China implemented a law Thursday extensively regulating how much food each citizen in the country can eat, requiring restaurants to fine individuals if they leave too many leftovers and banning social media videos showing people binge eating.
America is China’s top supplier of corn so far in 2021, Chinese media noted Sunday, with corn prices in China at record highs.
Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo is stepping back from his initial show of support for the Democrats’ farmworker amnesty bill, which threatens Americans’ rural communities by giving employers a low-wage, no-rights foreign labor force for a wide variety of agriculture jobs.
Jeff Bezos’ pro-migration Washington Post is warning President Joe Biden his failure to control fast-growing migration through the U.S. southern border threatens the Democrats’ political power in Washington, DC.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) says legislation that will provide amnesty to 1.5 to 2.1 million illegal aliens employed by farms in the United States “is not amnesty” while justifying his support for the plan.
Ten GOP representatives have joined the Democrats’ farmworker amnesty bill, even though the bill would push many of their own voters out of jobs and their own districts.
Democrats are offering a massive flood of cheap, indentured replacement labor to agriculture companies in exchange for their support of an amnesty that would create millions of new Democrat-voting citizens.
Democrats have postponed a floor vote on President Joe Biden’s massive amnesty and population-expansion bill because of “dismal” support among Democrats, according to Politico.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack revealed Wednesday he will respond to demands for racial equity in agriculture by initiating a commission on discrimination.
Nearly 900 cattle that have been traveling the Mediterranean for two months will be killed after vets deemed them no longer fit for export.
LA County is in the midst of a massive coronavirus vaccination campaign, including determining that restaurant workers are essential workers.
(AFP) — New Zealand unveiled a blueprint Sunday to phase out petrol-powered cars while its dairy industry, a key pillar of the economy, must slash cow numbers under the ambitious plan to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Hundreds of unionized farmers and their supporters in India blocked roads and highways in Punjab on Tuesday, paralyzing traffic and shutting down commerce to protest what they describe as “anti-farmer” agricultural laws passed in September.
SCOTUS agreed to hear a case from CA growers that claims state law allowing labor union to contact workers violates private property rights.
Agriculture department officials have announced they will not conduct a routine annual survey on wages in the farm sector, likely helping agriculture employers to suppress wages for the expected supply of 230,000 H-2A workers in 2021.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper insisted on Thursday that China was not in a “food crisis” nor in danger of famine after two months of devastating floods, a reaction to speculation surrounding dictator Xi Jinping’s abrupt announcement of a campaign to end food waste.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping called food waste “shocking and distressing” on Tuesday and urged his subjects to embrace “thrift,” while continuing his government’s insistence that China has plenty of food in storage thanks to ‘consecutive bumper harvests.”
A senior official with the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA), which certifies agricultural products, warned this weekend that packages of unlabeled seeds appearing to come from China could represent “seed terrorism.”
Dutch police arrested dozens of farmers Wednesday who were protesting government plans to cut emissions of nitrogen oxide.
Nepal’s government will pay farmers a cash reward for catching desert locusts in a bid to alleviate the recent damage caused to harvests by the pests, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.
An agri-business advertising for jobs under the government’s ‘Pick For Britain’ farm job scheme for furloughed workers required applicants to speak a foreign language to pick vegetables and fruit.
A trade unionist has threatened a general strike of migrant farm labourers if the Italian government does not declare an amnesty.
Seven French agricultural organisations have called on the government to increase food sovereignty as a response to dangers revealed by the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) sent a letter to the Donald Trump administration on Wednesday, urging him to make the canned fruit and vegetable supply a part of America’s critical infrastructure.
A sharp drop in demand for eggs has one Minnesota farmer seeing 61,000 of his chickens euthanized amid the nation’s coronavirus lockdown.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star Conor McGregor has expressed his anger at governments allowing businesses to fly in migrant workers while the people “cannot go to the funerals of our loved ones”.
The recruitment drive came after industry warned a lack of immigrants because of coronavirus would leave vegetables rotting in the fields.
Members with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organization are protesting outside grocery stores to encourage veganism despite stay-at-home guidelines in place due to the coronavirus health emergency.
Mike Bloomberg might be smart, but he is shockingly and unforgivably bigoted, dishonest, and ignorant.
Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has scored a big — but partial — victory in Florida when a GOP-controlled committee approved a loopholed version of his mandatory E-Verify bill.
The Democrats have rallied around Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal, a resolution calling for the radical transformation of the U.S. economy and infrastructure. Republicans are now responding with their own ideas for what environmental stewardship looks like ahead of the 2020 election.
Support for President Donald Trump among American farmers is on the rise, according to a new poll released this week.
Tom Steyer’s call to end tariffs on Chinese goods made with “filthy manufacturing processes” will end “global warming,” joked Alan Tonelson.
PETA is joining the New Year’s Resolution movement on the first day of 2020 by seeking pledges to be vegan for the month of January.
Thirty-four Republicans voted December 11 to amnesty at least one million illegals and also to import a wave of cheap visa-workers who will lower wages throughout the farm workforce, which includes at least one million American workers.
Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.
