Farm bills – famously complex legislative and spending balances between farm subsidies, food assistance, conservation and more – have tended to be passed about every five years since 1933.
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In the past, farmers have balanced their political beliefs against market logic. How much pressure can farmers endure?
If British farms are less competitive then food production will simply shift elsewhere.
A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at the checkout counter. We pay those uncounted costs in other ways.
Algorithms can help determine what farm inputs and policies can boost food production.
Subsidies for black farmers in South Africa would build a new ‘crop’ of commercially oriented farmers.
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Deputy Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Professor of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Director of the Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
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PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, Nanyang Technological University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Fordham University, Fordham University
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Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland