The comic strip says: The moderately okay liberal guilt pages: - Gee honey, the bumblebees are dying, the polar bears are dying, and the oceans are acidifying. - Something must be done. - Where’s my checkbook?
In December, the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) launched a 3-year pilot program to provide cost-share funding to farmers who want to extend the growing season on their farms by using high tunnels (sometimes referred to as hoop houses). Click here to read NSAC’s last update on the program.
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By Lawrence MacDonald - T.S. Eliot proves prophetic on the Hollow Men of the U.S. Senate: Lack of votes for Senate Democrats’ energy bill may mean the end
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 23, 2010; A02
Conceding that they can’t find enough votes for the legislation, Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill [...]
Specialty crop and organic producers are “classic entrepreneurs” said Subcommittee Chair, Dennis Cardoza (D-CA). Rep. Cardoza spoke on Wednesday, July 21st at the House Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture hearing to review specialty crop and organic programs in preparation for the 2012 Farm Bill.
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By Christina Droggitis - Under the banner “Rights Here, Right Now,” the International AIDS Conference currently taking place in Vienna is committed to translating funding for human rights-based programming for HIV to address the stigma and discrimination that often impede an effective response. On Wednesday, Global Fund executive director Michel Kazatchkine and others participated in a session titled “The Global Fund: Proving Impact, Promoting [...]
The emergence and intensification of agriculture is the basis for human development as we know it. But our path towards a more intensive farming system has made factory farming or industrial agriculture the norm in "civilized" high-tech nations. And in … Continue reading →
By David Wheeler - Something’s stirring out there, as the perennial grumbles about official development assistance (ODA) morph into claims of its demise. Last year, Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray ventured a coup de grace in a CGD working paper, The End of ODA: Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy. Their proposals for resuscitation have [...]
This past week the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull was officially declared dormant. The volcano, which you almost certainly remember from the news, had a big eruption in the early months of this year effectively grounding flights all over Europe. “This second … Continue reading →
By Katie Stein - In addition to marking Spain’s first World Cup victory, this past Sunday was World Population Day. Even though it did not receive the same attention as Andrés Iniesta’s goal in overtime, population is a critical component of global development.
In this week’s Lancet, Nick Wadhams highlights a rare success story in family planning in Sub-Saharan Africa. [...]
By Liliana Rojas-Suarez - I am encouraged by the IMF launch last week of a new online database of financial access indicators. When the initiative was announced at 2009 World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Istanbul, I wrote of the potential and need for such a database. This new resource will be an important tool for increasing financial inclusion. I’m [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - The New York Times this morning published an editorial titled “Waiting for a Trade Policy,” which noted that presidential backing for a single bilateral trade agreement does not a policy make:
“South Korea is an important ally in a dangerous neighborhood, and the White House should push hard to get this deal finished and through the [...]