It looks like there’s a new player in the farm policy game. The Farm and Food Policy Project will be conducting a press conference in Washington, DC on Monday, January 22 to release a report titled, “Seeking Balance in U.S. Farm and Food Policy.”
A broad alliance of agriculture, anti-hunger, faith-based, public health, rural, and conservation groups call for a new generation of farm and food policies to address the nation’s most pressing challenges. The Farm and Food Policy Project (FFPP) is a collaboration of diverse organizations united by the common vision of a more sustainable food and agricultural system for the United States. The FFPP facilitated a consensus building process culminating in a joint farm bill declaration that has now been endorsed by over 350 organizations. This declaration – Seeking Balance in U.S. Farm and Food Policy – will be released at the news/phone conference.
Presenters Include:
Linda Berlin, Society for Nutrition Education
Scott Faber, Farm Policy Campaign Director, Environmental Defense
Ralph Grossi, President, American Farmland Trust
Allen Hance, Senior Policy Analyst, Northeast-Midwest Institute and Coordinator, Farm and Food Policy Project
Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Savi Horne, Director, Land Loss Prevention Project, North Carolina
You might 
If you’re interested in acres of food booths then Green Week is the place to be. It’s really hard to convey how large this show is. This booth is just a representative sample of what you’ll find here. 
Right after our sushi lunch which did include some of the best sake I’ve ever tasted (really didn’t think I liked sake until now) I got to interview Yamada Masaru who is one of the main organizers for the 
After getting some proposals out and doing a little email catch up this morning I got to the Green Week press center in time for an excellent Japanese box lunch. The IFAJ executive committee was given a presentation on this fall’s 
It got a little late out in Berlin last night with my IFAJ buddies. Here’s a few of them. We braved the rain and wind to go out to a very nice dinner. 
The first image that came to my mind when I saw this was of a very relaxed and happy farmer harvesting his crop while listening to some cool tunes on his iPhone. I wonder if it’s going to happen. I wonder how you would market this crop and where. I wonder a lot of things sometimes.
Here’s one of the latest reports from Paul McKellips, Global Outreach Officer, US Embassy Baghdad, The Green Room – Public Affairs GO Team. Like a lot of what Paul is finding out, there’s way more good going on in Iraq than our mainstream media would like you to think. I guess that re-building an agricultural industry isn’t juicy news but I think it is.
It’s good to see the 
We heard from a lot of politicians today but the one I think who had the clearest message was the EU Commissioner of Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel. She’s a pretty straight talking lady and I recorded her whole press conference for you. Later in the afternoon I got to interview her personally too.