Strengthening Local Processing Act and More
Strengthening Local Processing Act, Food Safety Outreach Program Racial Equity Data Analysis, and Climate and Agriculture Legislation Roundup in the latest news roundup from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
RELEASE: The Strengthening Local Processing Act Addresses Critical Livestock and Poultry Supply Chian Issues
This week, Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) introduced The Strengthening Local Processing Act, a comprehensive bill that addresses acute livestock supply chain issues and supports small meat and poultry processing plants. View our statement and stakeholder perspectives on the bill below:
Food Safety Outreach Program Racial Equity Data Analysis
Since 2015, the Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) has provided small and mid-sized farms, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers, small processors, and small-scale wholesalers with the training they need to comply with new food safety requirements included in the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act.
NSAC was invited in September to present an analysis of racial equity impact data for FSOP based on program awards and communities served to the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), which administers the program. Despite being a fairly new program, NIFA has already taken strides to ensure FSOP benefits farmers of color. Lean more on our blog!
Climate and Agriculture Legislation Roundup
Editor’s Note: The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) created a blog series on Rep. Chellie Pingree’s Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA), the first comprehensive piece of legislation introduced in the House of Representatives addressing climate change and agriculture. Blogs one through seven focus on specific provisions within the ARA; whereas this eighth and final blog in the series summarizes current climate and agriculture legislation.
Against the backdrop of negotiations to avoid a government shutdown on September 30 and additional pandemic relief, legislators in the House of Representatives passed the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act (H.R. 4447), a broad, clean energy package that would invest billions of dollars to promote research and development for technologies to address climate change. Learn more about the bill’s implications in the larger climate change policy landscape in the blog below:
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