Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance

Last week, the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance released policy recommendations for the 2023 Farm Bill.  Further reducing emissions throughout agricultural and forestry supply chains will require a comprehensive effort involving financial and technical assistance, research investments, proactive response to innovation, public-private partnerships and a commitment to equitable opportunities fo

On Monday, the USDA announced $1 billion in partnerships to support America’s climate-smart farmers, ranchers and forest landowners. The new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunity will finance pilot projects that create market opportunities for U.S. ag ...

Four witnesses representing the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance testified to the Senate Agriculture Committee during last week’s climate change hearing. Arizona Farm Bureau President Stefanie Smallhouse told lawmakers the group supports three principals, when it comes to involving farmers and ranchers in the solution. ...

The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance announced its membership is expanding as it puts together new policy working groups. Last year, the Alliance made more than 40 recommendations on how agriculture can help mitigate climate change and the new groups will focus on developing a set of more-specific policy proposals ...

An alliance of groups that represent farmers, forest owners, the food sector, state governments, and environmental advocates released what many are calling an unprecedented list of recommendations to guide Federal climate policy development ...