#agricultural policies

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Budget Fails to Address Key Issues: Dr. Ajoy Kumar

Congress leader criticizes government’s approach to youth employment and agriculture Former MP Dr. Ajoy Kumar deems the 2024-25 Union Budget disappointing, claiming it overlooks crucial concerns of common citizens. JAMSHEDPUR – Experienced Congressman and former Member of Parliament Dr. Ajoy Kumar has come out with strong words against the union budget and has expressed dissatisfaction of the…

[kesarijournal]

The Grand WTO's Food, Fishing, and Farming Fiasco

The Grand WTO's Food, Fishing, and Farming Fiasco

Welcome to the latest drama that’s more tangled than your earphones in a pocket – the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ongoing saga involving a cast of nations with India and South Africa in leading roles, and a contentious plot over food, fishing, and farming subsidies. Set against the backdrop of Abu Dhabi’s Ministerial Conference, our story unfolds with India and South Africa uniting to…

[ggacworldwide]

Empowering Agriculture: NPowerFarmers Guide to Government Support for Smart Farming

Greetings, NPowerFarmers! In this segment of the NPowerFarmers Guide, we’re delving into the indispensable role of government support in empowering agriculture through the adoption of smart farming practices. Join us as we explore the various initiatives, policies, and financial assistance available for farmers embracing agricultural technology and discover how government backing can catalyze the…

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Thomas Sankara's Agricultural Policies That Transformed Burkina Faso

Introduction: Welcome to the Agric Journalist blog! Today, let’s go back in time to look at the remarkable agricultural policies implemented by Thomas Sankara during his tenure as the president of Burkina Faso. Often referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara,” Sankara’s visionary leadership and commitment to social justice made him a beloved and influential figure not only in Burkina Faso but across…

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We are delighted to present to you the insightful and inspiring address by our esteemed Guest of Honour, Smt. Vinita Sethi. Smt. Sethi is the President of the Public Affairs Forum of India and holds the esteemed position of SVP & Chief Public Affairs at Apollo Hospitals. In this remarkable address delivered at the ISPP Convocation 2023, Smt. Vinita Sethi shares her invaluable perspectives on the realm of public policy and the profound impact it has on shaping our society. Her wealth of experience and expertise adds a unique dimension to the event, enriching the knowledge and aspirations of our 4th cohort of budding policy leaders. To the graduating students, as you embark on this new chapter of your journey, remember that this convocation is not just an end but a new beginning. Stay connected with us on this channel as we continue to bring you more thought-provoking content, engaging discussions, and inspiring stories from the world of public policy. Subscribe now and join us in celebrating the spirit of ISPP and the incredible potential of our future policy leaders! For more details,

visit us at www.ispp.org.in!

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@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.

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Speech Governor Walz Gave in Louisville, KY!

~BR~

[queen-boudicca]

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

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The AP found that U.S. prison labor is in the supply chains of goods being shipped all over the world via multinational companies, including to countries that have been slapped with import bans by Washington in recent years. For instance, the U.S. has blocked shipments of cotton coming from China, a top manufacturer of popular clothing brands, because it was produced by forced or prison labor. But crops harvested by U.S. prisoners have entered the supply chains of companies that export to China.

While prison labor seeps into the supply chains of some companies through third-party suppliers without them knowing, others buy direct. Mammoth commodity traders that are essential to feeding the globe like Cargill, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, Archer Daniels Midland and Consolidated Grain and Barge – which together post annual revenues of more than $400 billion – have in recent years scooped up millions of dollars’ worth of soy, corn and wheat straight from prisons, which compete with local farmers.

...Incarceration was used not just for punishment or rehabilitation but for profit. A law passed a few years [after the formal end of the convict-leasing system in 1928] made it illegal to knowingly transport or sell goods made by incarcerated workers across state lines, though an exception was made for agricultural products. Today, after years of efforts by lawmakers and businesses, corporations are setting up joint ventures with corrections agencies, enabling them to sell almost anything nationwide.

Civilian workers are guaranteed basic rights and protections by OSHA and laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act, but prisoners, who are often not legally considered employees, are denied many of those entitlements and cannot protest or form unions.

“They may be doing the exact same work as people who are not incarcerated, but they don’t have the training, they don’t have the experience, they don’t have the protective equipment,” said Jennifer Turner, lead author of a 2022 American Civil Liberties Union report on prison labor.

[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

[kesarijournal]

The Grand WTO's Food, Fishing, and Farming Fiasco

The Grand WTO's Food, Fishing, and Farming Fiasco

Welcome to the latest drama that’s more tangled than your earphones in a pocket – the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ongoing saga involving a cast of nations with India and South Africa in leading roles, and a contentious plot over food, fishing, and farming subsidies. Set against the backdrop of Abu Dhabi’s Ministerial Conference, our story unfolds with India and South Africa uniting to…

[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.

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

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Lokneeti | Student Experience - Clara Malik

Dive into the inspiring journey of Clara, a dedicated changemaker in the realm of rural livelihoods and women empowerment, as she shares her transformative experiences in our Lokneeti Alumni series! Get ready to be captivated by Clara's incredible work with PRADAN, a pioneering NGO focused on uplifting marginalized SC/ST women through strategic socio-economic development programs. Since 2017, Clara has been at the forefront, tirelessly driving positive change in the lives of these women in two blocks, collaborating closely with government administrations to bring about sustainable impact.

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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…