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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
The White House hunger and nutrition conference is in the books. Now, the question is how much of the White House food strategy will be put into practice - and what it will mean for the ag and food sectors.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack pushed back Wednesday against criticism of the White House hunger conference from key Republicans on Capitol Hill and touted more than $8 billion in private sector commitments to address hunger and nutrition needs.
Some leading lawmakers and one of the top CEOs in ag industry will have prominent places today at the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.
A $250 million research initiative on using food as medicine is among $8 billion in private-sector commitments being announced today in conjunction with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
The USDA Equity Commission is recommending a study into the potential termination of the Farm Service Agency county committees and is recommending USDA stand up a program to ensure county committee minority advisers have direct access to the FSA administrator.
The White House is laying out a strategy today for meeting the President Biden’s ambitious goal of ending hunger and reducing diet-related diseases by 2030.
The Biden administration’s proposed strategy to end hunger in the United States and advance healthy diets relies on a mix of regulatory and legislative goals that may take years to achieve, such as front-of-pack food labeling and the use of food as medicine.
The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn an interim decision for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and says it will complete its registration review in 2026.
The Biden administration is being pushed to consider dismantling the county committee system that USDA has long relied on to manage farm programs at the local level.
