The Farm Bill Uprooted
Every five years, Congress comes together to pass a major omnibus bill called the Farm Bill, which sets the course for our food and agriculture system in the U.S. 2023 is one of those Farm Bill years. In this 6-part podcast series from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, hear from policy experts, farmers and advocates about how the Farm Bill works, how it’s shaped our food system – for better or for worse – and how we can start to try to fix it.
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Episodes
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
With COP27 fast approaching, and recent reports from the UNEP and the WMO warning that the world is not on track to stay below 1.5 degrees of warming, the time for real, transformative change is now. In this episode, hear from IATP Executive Director Sophia Murphy and IATP Europe Director Shefali Sharma, both of whom will be travelling to Egypt for this year's COP, on the role of civil society groups at COP and the false solutions for climate and agriculture that IATP is working to discredit.
At COP27, Shefali will be speaking on two panels which will be livestreamed for remote audiences:
Net Zero Food Systems: Fact or fiction? on November 9 at 2:30 p.m. EET/6:30 a.m. CST
Driving Systemic Change: Policy and Finance for Real Zero Solutions (with Sophia as moderator) on November 10 at 11:30 a.m. EET/3:30 a.m. CST
Find a transcript of this episode and more information about IATP's work on our website: https://www.iatp.org/blog/talking-cop27-episode-3
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
For almost 30 years, the world's countries have been meeting at an annual global climate conference, the UNFCCC COP, to try to coordinate responses to the accelerating climate crisis. In Episode 2 of our podcast series on COP27, we'll delve into the conference itself. Hear from IATP experts Ben Lilliston and Steve Suppan about the history and significance of the COP, starting with the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. We’ll introduce you to how the COP works, why the conference matters for agriculture, how COP agreements have been repeatedly undermined and why it’s so difficult to achieve real progress.
Find more information and an episode transcript on our website.
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Our industrialized food and farming systems are both driving the climate crisis and threatened by it. How did we get here? And what path can we take toward true climate resilience? In this episode, hear from IATP’s Senior Policy Analyst Shiney Varghese and Senior Advisor Timothy A. Wise on the realities of the current globalized system of industrial agriculture and an emerging alternative: Agroecology. While some groups, like IATP and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, are pushing for agroecology to be recognized at COP27 as a climate adaptation strategy, resisting the agribusiness-funded status quo is an uphill battle. This episode introduces listeners to that struggle and its climate justice implications in the lead-up to the UNFCCC's 27th annual global climate conference, happening November 6-18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, COP27.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
From the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy comes a new 4 part limited podcast series on climate, agriculture, and COP 27.