Sustainable Agriculture Priorities for 2021

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As a new Congress and new Administration begin moving forward their top priorities for the coming year, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition stands ready to engage our grassroots base to push for top issues facing farmers and food system leaders across our membership and the broader sustainable agriculture community.

NSAC members convened virtually earlier this year to debate and finalize key coalition policy and funding priorities and their sustainable agriculture priorities for 2021. Climate Change and COVID-19 Pandemic Response emerged as key grassroots campaigns, as well as securing full funding for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program. To read more about these top priorities or additional priorities not mentioned here, head over to our blog. 

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Farm Bill Program Addresses Biodiversity and Climate Crises

As our nation’s largest working lands conservation program, the Farm Bill’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), can and should be a boon for wildlife. But cuts in program funding under the previous administration left limited resources that farmers can use to enhance their conservation efforts on the lands they steward. During these uncertain times, our nation’s farmers and ranchers are facing upheaval from a pandemic, a failed trade war, climate change, systemic racism and environmental injustice, and pressure to sell their land to developers. But this program helps keep working lands working and farmer livelihoods thriving while providing crucial wildlife habitat.

Read more about the program and recommendations to strengthen the impact of federal conservation programs at our blog. 

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