#agricultural policy

[fragariavescana]

@argumate, in re ecological jianghu

Is prev looking for the Agricultural Science department? They're the ones who get their hands dirty on university-owned research farms looking for ways to e.g. breed chickens with better welfare without compromising meat output, and how to make mobile slaughter units cost-effective.

And they take people from farming backgrounds as well as science and policy.

[farmerstrend]

Civil Society Calls for the National Government to Enforce a Ban on Hazardous Agri-inputs

Civil society groups at the First National Agroecology Symposium call for a ban on harmful agricultural inputs in Kenya, urging the government to prioritize safe, nutritious food for all. At the agroecology symposium in Nairobi, civil society organizations advocate for a ban on unsafe farm chemicals, emphasizing the need for government action to protect public health and promote sustainable…

[kesarijournal]

Legalizing Minimum Support Price (MSP) in India: A Multifaceted Analysis

## IntroductionThe debate around the legalization of Minimum Support Price (MSP) and its implications on Indian agriculture has gained unprecedented momentum in recent years. This discourse is set against the backdrop of global pressures, including World Trade Organization (WTO) scrutiny, domestic agricultural challenges, and the socio-economic fabric of rural India. The conversation encompasses…

[meadowslark]

Finally....

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Speech Governor Walz Gave in Louisville, KY!

~BR~

[queen-boudicca]

Me when doing my environmental science homework, at every available opportunity:

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Government of Brazil and FAO sign alliance to support vulnerable populations in urban and peri-urban areas of Latin America and the Caribbean

The project in the framework of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program aims to enhance food security and reduce poverty in the region.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE), and Brazil’s Ministry of Social Development, Family and Fight Against Hunger (MDS) signed the project Strengthening the regional agenda of food systems for the urban-rural continuum in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates that 81% of the region’s population lives in urban areas, posing challenges for access to healthy food and the inclusion of family farmers in value chains. Therefore, this project seeks to enhance food security and reduce poverty among the most vulnerable populations in urban and peri-urban areas of cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to promote urban food systems that are more efficient, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient. 

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[theburialofstrawberries]

So grateful for my earth systems science class this semester I just did not know how to read or think about climate I was so pedagogically impoverished

[probablyasocialecologist]

What was needed, then, was not merely land redistribution but also economic independence, such that farmers could actively engage and defend a democracy that reflected the range of their interests. To avoid authoritarian control, new states would need to create opportunity rapidly, and this required economic planning—especially the coordination of prices and markets and programs to teach peasants about technology. Warriner and Yates recommended a system of cooperatives and shared technology supporting small, economically independent farmers who could then make up their own minds about politics. Such plans would provide new states with comprehensive economic programs for both cities and towns, ensuring the “economic conditions under which the peasants can greatly increase their outputs,” and that both urban and rural workers could look for “a steadily rising level of incomes.”

Warriner and Yates theorized that planned economies were most vital for rural workers due to the nature of the agricultural cycle. Peasants, they argued, were economically vulnerable in an industrial economy where workers with wage increases were likely to spend more of their money on manufactured goods than on food. Modern states could cushion peasants from the inherent vulnerability of agricultural enterprise, which, unlike manufacturing, couldn’t be planned several months or even years in advance and couldn’t be easily scaled to adjust to new information from the market.

State programs could ameliorate human misery, they argued, and governments should adopt measures to protect agricultural workers; such sound engagements, they reasoned, could inoculate peasants against the political promises offered by would-be despots. They wrote: “Man is beginning to realize that he can exercise control. . . . Peasants in their economic lives are still at the mercy of the rest of the community which exploits them, but this state of affairs need not continue for ever.” Coordinated expenditure and management by a centralized bureaucratic state could enable a new economy—one marked by “economic conditions under which the peasants can greatly increase their output,” even supplying a “steadily rising level of incomes.”

Economic planning thus lay at the root of a general revolution to increase prosperity and economic security while ensuring a path to democracy in which peasants would not be easily wooed by authoritarian forces. According to Warriner and Yates, by setting farmers up with individual plots of soil, land redistribution would be a key element of economic planning in most nations. In a later book published in 1955, Warriner laid out a plan premised on recent UN reports that, in her words, “put forward the contention that land reform . . . must be regarded as a condition of economic development.” Soon after describing these schemes in print, Warriner and Yates would each have opportunities to realize them. While Warriner went on to advise a variety of postcolonial nations, Yates would help to found the FAO, working alongside John Boyd Orr, another veteran of the British crusade against hunger.

Unlike Yates the activist, Orr was a professor turned adviser to the state. Experiments published by Orr in 1927 proved that Scottish schoolchildren given milk grew stronger than their peers. He was the veteran of a campaign to remedy the condition of Britain’s working classes by providing cheap access to food. His 1936 report, Food, Health, and Income, argued for an increased role by the state in the nutrition of the poor. In the decade that followed, Europe was wracked by food shortages, and Orr’s work offered a model for European policy.

In 1945, Orr appeared in Quebec at the FAO conference as an unofficial adviser. Despite having been excluded from the official British delegation, Orr electrified the conference with a sermon in which he condemned political inaction about nutrition in vivid terms. “The people wanted bread,” said Orr, “but were given statistics.” The next year, Orr was selected as the FAO’s first director general.

Orr, like Yates and Warriner, believed that state planning could level human disparities. Orr had already spent a decade publishing books that envisioned a top-down food board for Britain that would collect information on where food was grown and where it could be sold and then advise farmers about what to grow. At the FAO, Orr would style the same dreams on a global scale. Orr’s agenda was threefold: establishing the FAO as an independent, policymaking institution capable of recommending global strategies; combating the worst consequences of poverty by supporting a worldwide food program (a “World Food Plan”); and challenging the long-term consequences of racism in Europe’s former colonies.

Orr’s view of how a coordinating institution could support society was, if anything, even grander than that of Warriner and Yates. He wished to level the short divide not merely between rich and poor or rural and urban, but also between different races and different experiences of empire.

[exopelagic]

this election feels so hollow even though it’s likely ostensibly gonna be a good outcome. labour really just sucks fucking ass rn huh

[farmerstrend]

Empowering Youth in Agriculture: How Digital Agripreneurs Are Revolutionizing Extension Services in Kenya

Discover how Kenya’s new agripreneurs model is empowering youth to provide digital extension services to farmers, revolutionizing agricultural productivity and market access. Learn how the Ministry of Agriculture is leveraging technology and digital platforms to enhance agricultural extension services, bridging the gap between research and farmers. Explore how digital agripreneurs are…

[kesarijournal]

The Great Green Rebellion: Farmers' Uprising Against the Quest for a 'Greener' Tomorrow

In a stunning turn of events that you might have missed (because let’s face it, it’s not on mainstream media, and who reads past the headlines these days?), farmers across Europe have decided they’ve had enough. No more Mr. Nice Farmer. From the picturesque fields of Germany to the romantic vineyards of France, the agricultural proletariat is rising against what they perceive as the tyrannical…

[observatoiredumensonge]

Agriculteurs : la révolte s’étend en Occitanie et Macron a raison d’avoir peur

La déliquescence de notre société est résumée dans la condition tragique de nos agriculteurs et de nos policiers, abandonnés de tous. Par Frédéric Sirgant Soutenez notre travail, abonnez-vous à Semaine du MENSONGE au tarif préférentiel de : 1,50 € par mois pendant un an,envoi chaque lundi par mailPaiement sécurisé en cliquant ICI Agriculteurs : la révolte s’étend en Occitanie et Macron a…

[falseandrealultravival]

Does North Korea have a concept of logistics? (Essay)(Logistics-7)

©Thomson Reuters Canada (fools on a picnic)

Modern warfare has three main areas: operations, intelligence, and logistics. The most important of these is logistics, which governs the supply of weapons, food, fuel, clothing, and medicine. It's the most humble field, but in Europe and America, the most talented people become logistics staff.

In preparation for war with Japan, the USA carefully planned for years to cut off Japan's logistics lines and tighten Japan. It's called the Orange Plan. Meanwhile, the Japanese Navy repeatedly practiced fleet battles with the USA. The emphasis was on strategy. “Logistics” versus “strategies.” As a result, Japan suffocated and the USA won completely. To begin with, in the case of Japan, both the army and navy had a tradition of neglecting logistics, believing that as long as the tip of the spear was sharp, one could win with mental strength even on hunger.

Today's North Korea can be seen as a caricature of Japan. Missiles, nuclear weapons, military reconnaissance satellites... ``These ``tips of the spear'' are, of course, for operational purposes, but in the first place, the North Korean people, who have been starving and weakening due to years of failed agricultural policies, how will the North Korean government be able to feed them when war occurs? Isn't the logistics just being handed over to the military? Even if you tried to obtain goods from rich China or Russia, it would be impossible if we destroyed the railways and sunk the cargo ships that provided transportation there. The USA will not hesitate to take that action. This is because it is a shortcut to bring North Korea to its knees. Japan has proven that you cannot win by sharpening only the tip of your spear. North Korea has no concept of logistics. Poor North Korea.

Rei Morishita

北朝鮮は、ロジスティクスという概念を持つか？（エッセイ）

現代の戦争においては、作戦、情報、ロジスティクスの３大主要分野がある。中でも、最重要なのは、兵器、食糧、燃料、衣服、医薬品の補給を司るロジスティクスである。最も地味な分野だが欧米では最も優秀な人材がロジスティクス参謀になる。

ＵＳＡは、日本との戦争に備えて、日本のロジスティクス線（補給線）を断ち、締め上げる計画を、何年も周到に練った。オレンジ・プランという。一方日本海軍はUSAとの艦隊決戦の演習を繰り返し行った。作戦を重視したのだ。「ロジスティク」対「作戦」。結果は、日本は窒息し、ＵＳＡの���勝に終わった。そもそも日本の場合、陸軍も海軍もロジスティックスを軽視する伝統があり、言わば「槍の穂先さえ鋭ければ、空腹でも精神力で勝てる」という思い込みがあった。

この日本の戯画とも思えるのが、今の北朝鮮だ。ミサイル、核兵器、軍事偵察衛星・・・「これらの「槍の穂先」は、もちろん作戦用のものだが、そもそも積年の農業政策の失敗で、飢えて衰えている北朝鮮国民を、戦争が起こったとき、どうやって食わせていけるのだろうか？ロジスティクスは、軍に回すだけで手一杯ではないのか。豊かな中国やロシアから物資を入手しようとしても、その交通手段の鉄道を破壊し、貨物船を沈めれば、不可能になるのだ。ＵＳＡはその行動をためらわず実行するだろう。北朝鮮を屈服させる近道だからだ。「槍の穂先」だけを鋭く鍛えても、勝てないことは日本が実証している。北朝鮮は、ロジスティクスという概念を持つまい。哀れな北朝鮮。

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Sunday, September 8, 2024 - Tim Walz

Governor Tim Walz and his family were joined on the campaign trail today by Governor Andy Beshear, his family, TN State Representative Justin Jones, and Former Vice President Al Gore. Below is the 'official' schedule of today's events.

It was great having the Beshears show us their home state and help us understand more of the local issues. Upon the conclusion of today's events the Walz Family headed to meet the Vice President in Philadelphia to continue prepping for her Tuesday Debate.

Owensboro, KY Event Location: Sunday Service Unity Fellowship Event Type: Sunday Worship Event Time: 9:00 - 11:30 CT *No remarks were made during or after the services. However, the Governors, their families, Justin Jones, and Al Gore were at the church prior to in order to greet the congregation. Thank you for allowing the campaign to worship with you this week.

Bowling Green, KY Event Location: Western Kentucky University Event Type: Get Out the Vote Event Time: 13:00 - 16:00 CT *A Get Out the Vote campaign was launched on-campus by Justin Jones and Governor Tim Walz, while Al Gore and Governor Andy Beshear focused on door knocking in the community.

Louisville, KY Event Location: KFC Yum! Center Event Type: Campaign Rally Event Time: 20:00 - 22:00 ET *A full-text of this speech will be released shortly.

~BR~