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Scholarship Funds to CA Small Farm Conference Available |
October 25, 2007
The California Small Farm Conference has just released its annual call for scholarships to attend the conference February 24-26, 2008 in Visalia.
The three-day conference features on-farm tours, educational workshops and networking opportunities. The conference focuses on farming solutions and sharing information on issues, resources, techniques, and opportunities to help small farmers succeed.
The conference provides an opportunity to improve business skills and farming skills and practices through helping link farmers with educational opportunities and with sources of technical and financial assistance. 99 farmers and 15 students were awarded scholarships last year.
The scholarship application is attached and is available on the web site:
www.californiafarmconference.com
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SF Chronicle Article on the Effects of the Farm Bill on CA Ag |
September 24, 2007
This San Francisco Chronicle article from Sept. 23 gives a good overview of the
Food and Farm Bill’s paralyzing grip on U.S. agriculture while concentrating on
California’s seemingly miraculous ability to deal with risk without the
aid of the subsidies commodity growers get, and yet still outproduce
every other state. "If California vegetable farmers got crop subsidies,
we might all still be eating iceberg lettuce," says one economist. Read the full article here .
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New Report Links Property Values and Obesity |
Sept. 14, 2007
Researchers at the University of Washington reported a link between property values and obesity , which confirmed what many have long suspected--that folks who live in low-income areas are more likely to be obese.
The rise of obesity is hardly a new story, but we are learning more all the time, and unfortunately, it seems that things are getting worse. Check out this alarming interactive map from MSN , based on data collected by the Center for Disease Control, and see how much fatter Americans have gotten over the last twenty years.
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FAO Report says organic farming fights hunger, tackles climate change, good for farmers, and more... |
Sept. 14, 2007
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has come out in favour of organic agriculture. Its report Organic Agriculture and Food Security explicitly states that organic agriculture can address local and global food security challenges [1]. Organic farming is no longer to be considered a niche market within developed countries, but a vibrant commercial agricultural system practised in 120 countries, covering 31 million hectares (ha) of cultivated land plus 62 million ha of certified wild harvested areas. The organic market was worth US$40 billion in 2006, and expected to reach US$70 billion by 2012.
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September 6, 2007
On 16 October 2007, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will celebrate World Food Day with the theme The Right to Food. The Right to Food is the right of every person to have regular access
to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food
for an active, healthy life. It is the right to feed oneself in
dignity, rather than the right to be fed.
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