Episode 1: Overgrown

The Farm Bill Uprooted

How do we ensure fair prices for farmers and consumers while building climate resilience, protecting the environment and sustaining rural communities? And what happens when Farm Bill policies incentivize the opposite approach? Hear from IATP’s Ben Lilliston and Karen Hansen-Kuhn in Episode One of the Farm Bill Uprooted, which dives into Farm Bill basics, and how it’s shaped a food and farm system dominated by commodity production and overgrown corporate agribusiness interests.

References and further reading:

• USDA ERS, Food Access Research Atlas
• USDA ERS, Key Statistics and Graphics
• About half of US water 'too polluted' for drinking, swimming or fishing, report finds. The Hill. Shirin Ali, 2022.
• Food fight: The Citizen’s Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill. Daniel Imhoff, 2012.
• The new deal’s impacts on sharecropping and tenant farming in the US South: a history Michael Sligh, 2021.
• Crisis by Design: A Brief Review of U.S. Farm Policy. Mark Richie & Kevin Ristau, 1987.