Month: November 2021

Voters to decide constitutional ‘right to food’ in Maine Maine enacted the country’s first food sovereignty law in 2017 to encourage food self-sufficiency. Now, its voters will decide whether to declare a first-in-the-nation constitutional right to food “including the right to save and exchange seeds and the right to grow,… Continue reading

Fertilizer responsible for more than 20 percent of agricultural emissions As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) gets underway in Glasgow, a new report finds that synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought, outpacing even the commercial aviation industry. New proposal in Congress on… Continue reading