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- Thursday, Jan 19, 2012
Blog Post The article, “Reform or Transformation? The Pivotal Role of Food Justice in the U.S. Food Movement,” by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Yi Wang, demonstrates some deep thought about the food movement and related movements. It has merit, but leaves out mo... -
- Friday, Dec 09, 2011
Blog Post Here's another detailed explanation of how a well meaning group fails to understand the farm bill Commodity Title. This time it's a "Liveable Future Blog" by a doctoral student at the Center for a Liveable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School... -
- Sunday, Nov 13, 2011
Blog Post This is a general introduction to my method of "prophetic" pathos as a process for social change. It's part of a series of "debriefing" blogs following the recent conference of the Community Food Security Coalition, and the US Food Sovereignty Al... -
- Thursday, Oct 13, 2011
Blog Post While I strongly support the values of the Center for Science in the Public Interest's "Food Day," (October 24, 2011,) I find fault with the way they implement those values. I find that they misunderstand farm and food justice issues in the farm ... -
- Wednesday, Sep 21, 2011
Blog Post Here's another of my critiques of farm subsidy myths. This one is US PIRG, which gives themselves a black eye. -
- Friday, Aug 12, 2011
Blog Post Farm Aid Founders Willie Nelson and Neil Young have taken strong stands on farm and food justice issues, especially economic justice. We see this in Neil's 1985 full page letter to President Reagan, in an article on rural wealth creation in which... -
- Monday, Aug 01, 2011
ZNet Article This is a review of Jeremy Rifkin's 1992 book Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of Cattle Culture. -
- Saturday, Jul 30, 2011
Blog Post Christian Parenti's recent article, "Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread," addresses an important crisis: food poverty. Unfortunately, his thesis leaves out the part where low farm prices, not high, were the main long term cause of the problem. ... -
- Monday, Apr 18, 2011
Blog Post Online progressive and other articles and blogs typically give false analysis of the food poverty crisis. They suggest that it's only caused by a few recent years of higher prices, and not by the decades of low prices, for example. This then lea... -
- Friday, Apr 01, 2011
Blog Post The Africa Group at WTO has expressed concerns about farm prices along the lines of the Food from Family Farms Act of the National Family Farm Coalition (US). In contrast, groups like ActionAid and the Environmental Working Group misunderstand th... -
- Saturday, Mar 05, 2011
Blog Post The family farm justice movement offers a strategy to get more benefits from the farm bill AND spend less on it. The secret is in the market management tools developed for the New Deal farm programs. No Commodity Subsidies are needed, but with ... -
- Friday, Dec 03, 2010
Blog Post This is a 2008 rebuttal to the United Kingdom's "OneWorld Guide" on "Trade and Poverty." Today the guide has changed, but the errors are the same. They continue to take a neoliberal position, offering as farm policy solutions mere subsidy reforms,... Blog Post Frustrated Europeans want to kick butt against the incredible absurdities of European and US farm policy. Believe me, I can relate! Unfortunately, like most similar groups in the US, they miss the mark. I provide some corrections, to try to brin... -
- Friday, Nov 19, 2010
Blog Post Here is a comprehensive set of reasons for effective reform of the Commodity Title of the U.S. farm bill. They're worded as one giant platform plank (with a lot of "whereases"). The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate (and again footnote) the... -
- Sunday, Nov 07, 2010
Blog Post I've started a petition to Michael Pollan through Change.org. It calls to him in his position in the food movement, where he has a large bully pulpit. I call for him to lead food movement leaders back on course, now prior to the major work for t... -
- Thursday, Oct 28, 2010
Blog Post During work on the 2008 farm bill, it was common to hear progressive advocates and mainstream media argue that the farm bill was originally intended to be temporary. Reasons why that argument does not make sense are presented. -
- Friday, Oct 22, 2010
Blog Post Europeans are working to expose the injustices in their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This is much like the work of the Environmental Working Group here. Unfortunately, they make the same errors, focusing on subsidies, which are not the key ... Blog Post Farm bill, commodity title issues are almost always misunderstood these days, and Ed Pilkington of the Guardian in the United Kingdom, is no exception. You'll find here my standard arguments and documentation. I'm posting this to encourage dialo... -
- Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010
Blog Post On the occasion of the death of Shel Trapp, a master organizer from Chicago, I'm posting this piece of creative writing. In the piece Trapp is the "Master of the Geni," and Joe Fagan, recently retired from Iowa CCI, is the "Guru." Perhaps you ha... -
- Monday, Oct 11, 2010
Blog Post As corn prizes rise again, and meat price rises are predicted, remember that farmers subsidized your food for more than a quarter century, especially 1981-2006. -
- Friday, Oct 01, 2010
Blog Post We find Michael Pollan all over the internet in videos. I find that he repeatedly argues that farm subsidies, specifically "subsidized corn," is the policy cause behind cheap corn that is used in high fructose corn syrup, to feed livestock in anim... -
- Saturday, Sep 25, 2010
Blog Post The question of how to organize effectively remains a perennial question for activists. Here is a simple example, with photos and brief text comments, that can help point the way. Does your group look like this? If not, read this blog for orien... -
- Thursday, Sep 23, 2010
Blog Post Recent food films such as "Fresh," "Food Inc.," and "King Corn" help us all to learn about farm and food issues. They show us clear and gut wrenching information about key problems. They fail, however, to accurately present the policy causes of ... -
- Thursday, Sep 16, 2010
Blog Post The large international peasant movement finds key support in the United States in the National Family Farm Coalition. They're together with price floors and supply management to stop dumping, and reserves and price ceilings to stop address price... -
- Monday, Sep 13, 2010
Blog Post This essay is part of a larger project which is linked at the bottom. -
- Saturday, Jan 16, 2010
Blog Post At times Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is confusing and false about the farm bill’s Commodity Title. Here is an online example Pollan's views and writing style, which illustrates these points. The article is sometimes cite... -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Blog Post We in the family farm movement are very thankful for the rise of the food movement as a major player in the farm bill. We have some serious issues to work out, some conflicts to overcome, but we can, we must, we will. -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Blog Post There are a number of major myths floating around related to the farm bill, all part of a simple, clear, false paradigm. The false paradigm was widely circulated during work on the 2007-8 farm bill. Blog Post The U.S. family farm movement, which has led the controversial direct fight against corporate power and for a just share of the wealth of agriculture for farmers and peasants world wide has long been short on funding from foundations and major don... Blog Post The late Al Krebs monumental book, The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness remains a giant in the field of food policy, albeit a hidden giant, full of information that remains missing in the food movement of our day. - All Most Recent Content
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Brad OnlineKey Farm Policy SitesFarm Bill Primer
(Note: some info moved to column 3)
Farm Bill 101
(Note: this project focuses on the Commodity Title of the US Farm Bill, not all of the Titles.)
BRIEFLY
APAC Assumptions of Farm Program
APAC Executive Summary 1 page
APAC Exec. Summ. pp 1-7 here.
APAC Reason why we have farm programs
APAC Because we lack price responsiveness
APAC Total Acreage Response to Price
Brad (briefly) Farm Bill Facts vs widespread myths
APAC Ten Reasons to Change Farm Bill
Tufts: Gains for Animal Factories
IATP Below Cost for Animal Factories
APAC Corps. for Dumping Corn
APAC Manage Supply For Africa
APAC Farm prices don't self correct
APAC Agribusiness uses Supply Management
Brad video Low Farm Prices=Poverty= Farm/Food Crisis
APAC How US Lowers World Prices
APAC Price Floors to End Corn Dumping
On the top side of the price issue we need Reserves and Price Ceilings:
so see my "Food Crisis Primer," further below
FARM COMMODITY SUBSIDIES
FSLC-LAF Price Floors Not Subsidy "Scapegoat"
APAC WTO's subsidy Premise is Wrong
IATP Address Need for Subsidies
APAC Subsidy, You're NO Price Floor
APAC Ending Subsidies will Not Help LDC
SOME HISTORY
APAC Remember the 1970s price spike?
APAC Legacy of Henry Wallace
Ritchie/Ristau Crisis by Design
Naylor et al Legacy of Crisis
Naylor et al Farm Bill Basics
DeepDishTV Farm Crisis 1986 video
APAC 96 "Freedom to Farm" Series
See Historical Videos below from NFFC, CRL, LRV, Donahue
FARMER SUPPORT
NFFC Key Farmer Groups Leading these issues in the US
WORLD SUPPORT
IATP Africa Group Calls for price floors, supply management
Campaign EU Farmer & Consumer Support
European Community EC Plan for Minimum Price & Supply Management (IATP)
Via Campesina supports these key NFFC Policies
Via Campesina 200,000,000 strong
MORE DEPTH
NFFC US Solution: The Food from Family Farms Act
IATP Fair Farm Bill Series
FWW Corporate Power vs Farm Bill
APAC Farmer Livelihoods Worldwide
FSLC-LAF African Amer. Cotton Study
APAC Real Evidence FOR Price Foors
IATP US Sugar as Model Program
IATP Sugar Prog Factsheet
GDAE Corn Sweetener Implicit Subsidies
IATP WTO Decade of Dumping
APAC (ppt/pdf) World Supply Management
ECONOMETRIC SUPPORT
(85 & 90 Farm Bills, strong support for these proposals)
This is the old FAPRI, pre-internet, so there's not much online. First see here citations and discussion of FAPRI research:
IFPRI Elimination of Subsidies
APAC POLYSYS
APAC Subsidies and Production
GDAE 5 Econ. Studies p. 21
Naylor I (FAPRI Chart)
Naylor II (See text; Footnotes;
Naylor All Full pdf pp. 11,19-22)
Ritchie & Ristau (Pages 11-15; Footnotes # 13, 19, 21.)
Kaiser Support Against Corporate Dairy
Bailey MN: Only Option to increase income
Brad video with FAPRi charts
NFU-Ca Corporate Profits Documented
See my Food Crisis 101 Primer, below
FARM BILL VIDEOS
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