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U.S. Farm Bill
Church World Service statement on the 2007 Farm Bill
The current U.S. Farm Bill is scheduled to expire in 2007. Church World Service (CWS) is urging that the U.S. adopt a new Farm Bill that protects farm families both in the U.S. and in developing nations.
Sow Justice, a CWS education and advocacy campaign, calls for policy changes that will help family farmers in the U.S. and around the world save their farms, feed their families, and educate their children. The campaign focuses on the opening presented by the upcoming Farm Bill legislation to alleviate hunger and poverty in the U.S. and globally.
Browse the resources and stories listed below to learn more about the Farm Bill and how you can take action.
Sowing
Justice for Family Farmers Everywhere: a Vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
Publication
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This 24-page resource examines key issues that need to be addressed in current
U.S. farm policy to support small-scale family farmers in the U.S. and overseas.
Comes with a postcard so you can take action.
Lessons from NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda - The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's October 22-23 conference on NAFTA's impact on agriculture
Letters and Statements to Policy Makers
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urging the Senate to pass a farm bill that provides hope, opportunity
and fairness for all (11/07)
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urging Senators to support a life-giving farm bill (11/07)
Urging
Senator Harkin to support
provisions in the Farm Bill that stimulate the production of food around the
world (11/05/07)
Urging
Senate support for meaningful farm bill reform (10/17/07)
Urging
Senate support
for the Dorgan-Grassley amendment to the farm bill (11/02/07)
A
religious statement on U.S. farm and food policy (08/03/07)
Ad
calling
on members of Congress to vote for real reform of U.S. farm policy (07/25/07)
Letter
criticizing the House Agriculture Committee's touted reform of the Farm
Bill (07/25/07)
CWS
urges House leadership on Farm Bill reform (07/17/07)
CWS News Stories
- 05/21/08 Church World Service statement on the 2007 Farm Bill
- 11/09/07 CWS says Farm Bill still needs work
- 10/25/07 CWS joins faith leaders in calling on Senate to reform 2007 Farm Bill
- 07/25/07 CWS calls citizens to immediate action on Farm Bill reform
- 07/25/07 Church World Service statement on 2007 Farm Bill reform
- 07/17/07 From the Executive Director's Desk...Sowing Justice: Part 2
- 07/16/07 Policy space needed for food security: an interview with Angela Wauye
- 06/29/07 It's time for a new Farm Bill, CWS tells Congress
- 04/25/07 Church World Service, faith groups press for Farm Bill overhaul
- 04/17/07 Faith groups advocate Farm Bill reforms
- 03/28/07 Minnesota event to mobilize grassroots support for just farm bill
- 02/28/07 Farm Bill under scrutiny
- 02/26/07 Sowing Justice for Family Farmers Requires Solidarity
- 11/01/06 From the Executive Director's Desk...Sow Justice on Family Farms Everywhere
- 10/31/06 Church World Service launches “Sow Justice” campaign to reform farm policy
- 10/13/06 On Eve of World Food and Poverty 'Days' CWS Pushes U.S. to Reform Farm Bill