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Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏

Viewed and recommend: “Food and Country.” foodandcountryfilm.com/

Ask for it at your local library, e.g., it’s at Monterey Public Library montereylibrary.org/cgi-bin/ko.

#FoodAndCountry #USA #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #SmallFarmers #FamilyFarms #Ranchers #FoodProduction #agriculture #farming #chefs #WhiteOakPastures #KnuthFarms #OrganicFarming
#Greenwave #BrenSmith #RiseAndRootFarms #StratfordAngus

Food and CountryFood and CountryFood and Country: trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches across political and social divides to report on the country's broken food system and the innovators risking everything to transform it.
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Nonilex

#USDA freezes #farmer #funding

The US Dept of #Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the #Trump admin that programs helping farmers would not be affected in the govt overhaul.

The impact has been immediate & wide-ranging, from cash assistance for #ranchers to fix #cattle watering systems to help for #corn growers wanting to plant cover crops that curb wind #erosion.

#economy #food #TrumpCoup #law
reuters.com/world/us/usda-free

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Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏

We are from rural Midwest ("farmed along Salt Creek, a few miles from the town of Chestnut, Illinois, population then 450. Later we moved to the nearby town of Mt. Pulaski, then pop. 1700") bikemonterey.org/about/about-m. And we agree with these words from Sarah Smarsh:

“I winced when political spin and coastal #media coverage made cruel words that my people would never speak and big trucks that they could never afford the dominant image of #rural, working-class and poor whites….#Farmers, #ranchers and land stewards have a critical stake in addressing #ClimateChange, even if they don’t use the same language as #environmental activists….People in #SmallTowns are often #hopeful, #cooperative folks who find creative solutions to #local problems and are ruled by a sense of #responsibility to community.” nytimes.com/2024/08/07/opinion

bikemonterey.org About Bicycling Monterey’s founder | Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub
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Alexander J. Stein

(2/3) Raising #cattle is only lucrative due to #subsidies, wile the global production of just #soybeans yields more than 2x as much high-quality #protein as the entire global #meat supply. Farmers & #ranchers don’t need to be victims of a changing world: theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattleBy Guardian staff reporter
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Chuck Darwin

The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land

For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country.

That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts #conservation, #recreation and #renewable #energy development on equal footing with resource extraction.

The final rule released Thursday represents a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property
— about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass.

It is expected to draw praise from conservationists and legal challenges from fossil fuel industry groups and Republican officials,
some of whom have lambasted the move as a “land grab.”

Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, known as the nation’s largest landlord, has long offered leases to #oil and gas companies, #mining firms and #ranchers.

Now, for the first time, the nearly 80-year-old agency will auction off “#restoration leases” and “#mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve public lands.

washingtonpost.com/climate-env

The Washington Post · The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its landBy Maxine Joselow
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"The hollowing out of rural #America—the loss of about half of the nation’s cattle #ranchers, about 90% of its hog #farmers, & more than 90% of its dairy farmers since the Reagan era—has fueled... a sense of desperation in the heartland.

Mergers, acquisitions, & the creation of #corporations of massive size & scope are typically justified on the basis of greater “efficiency.” But they are efficient only at centralizing #profits and fostering #inequality."
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Text: The trustbusters of the early 20th century were remarkably successful at creating and preserving competitive markets in the American economy. But the relaxation of antitrust enforcement during the 1980s soon led to greatly reduced competition not only in the food industry but also in banking, publishing, aerospace, and many other industries. Forty years ago, the United States had three large manufacturers of passenger aircraft. Today it has only one: Boeing, whose arrogance and incompetence can be attributed to the lack of domestic competition. Thirty years ago, the United States had more than 50 prime defense contractors. Today it has only five. Production delays, cost overruns, and vulnerable supply chains now threaten national security. The hollowing out of rural America—the loss of about half of the nation’s cattle ranchers, about 90 percent of its hog farmers, and more than 90 percent of its dairy farmers since the Reagan era—has fueled political extremism and a sense of desperation in the heartland. Mergers, acquisitions, and the creation of corporations of massive size and scope are typically justified on the basis of greater “efficiency.” But they are efficient only at centralizing profits and fostering inequality. During the past three decades, adjusted for inflation, the hourly pay of American workers has increased by about 18 percent—and the annual compensation of CEOs at the largest American corporations has increased by about 1,300 percent. In
#USA#News
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

And something more contemporary:

Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya pastoralismjournal.springerope

Understanding mobile pastoralism key to prevent conflict fao.org/pastoralist-knowledge-

Farmer-Herder Conflicts on the Rise in Africa hrw.org/news/2018/08/06/farmer

How Nigeria's cattle war is fuelling religious tension (2018)
bbc.com/news/world-africa-4403

Nigeria gunmen kill dozens in rural village in Benue State
bbc.com/news/world-africa-6521

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up
insideclimatenews.org/news/221

Pastoralist violence in Kenya spglobal.com/marketintelligenc

The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return pulitzercenter.org/stories/ama - yep, the Amazonian people (the Amazon is not empty) are being attacked by #ranchers (pastoralists).

And, no, the Western pastoralists aren't different, they just have more political power.

Ammon’s Army -
Inside the Far-Right “People’s Rights” Network
irehr.org/reports/peoples-righ

This Land - Journalist Christopher Ketcham reported talked about his book, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West, on past and current conflicts over public lands in the western United States. c-span.org/video/?462742-1/thi

SpringerOpenRaiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya - PastoralismConflicts related to livestock raiding are not new phenomena in many pastoral societies in the Horn of Africa. Traditionally, various pastoral communities use raiding as a cultural practice for restocking of herds, especially after periods of drought or outbreaks of diseases. However, in recent years, livestock raiding has become more frequent, violent and destructive.This paper elucidates, first, the motives behind the current livestock raiding, and second, it analyses how conflict affects livelihoods of pastoral communities. Between 2008 and 2011, focus group discussions and interviews were carried out with 376 members of the Turkana and Pokot communities and key informants.The study findings suggest that hunger and drought impacting on availability and access of resources are critical raiding motives among the Turkana, while increasing wealth and payment of dowry are the most important motives for the Pokot community. Violent conflict poses a significant threat to pastoral livelihoods which are already under pressure from recurrent drought, diseases and political marginalisation. The direct impact of violent raiding is felt in terms of loss of human life and property, reduction in livestock numbers, limited access to water and pasture resources and forced migration. Indirectly, violent conflicts create a strong and omnipresent perception of insecurity which results in ineffective resource utilisation, reduced mobility, food insecurity and closure of markets and schools. These factors combined undermine adaptation strategies and pastoralism altogether. Hence, a framework of conflict mitigation is needed which addresses the specific raiding motives of each group.
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