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Farm Bill 101
(Note: this project focuses on the Commodity Title of the US Farm Bill, not all of the Titles.)
BRIEFLY
APAC Assumptions of Farm Program
APAC Executive Summary 1 page
APAC Exec. Summ. pp 1-7 here.
APAC Reason why we have farm programs
APAC Because we lack price responsiveness
APAC Total Acreage Response to Price
Brad (briefly) Farm Bill Facts vs widespread myths
APAC Ten Reasons to Change Farm Bill
Tufts: Gains for Animal Factories
IATP Below Cost for Animal Factories
APAC Corps. for Dumping Corn
APAC Manage Supply For Africa
APAC Farm prices don't self correct
APAC Agribusiness uses Supply Management
Brad video Low Farm Prices=Poverty= Farm/Food Crisis
APAC How US Lowers World Prices
APAC Price Floors to End Corn Dumping
On the top side of the price issue we need Reserves and Price Ceilings:
so see my "Food Crisis Primer," further below
FARM COMMODITY SUBSIDIES
FSLC-LAF
Price Floors Not Subsidy "Scapegoat"
APAC
WTO's subsidy Premise is Wrong
IATP Address Need for Subsidies
APAC Subsidy, You're NO Price Floor
APAC Ending Subsidies will Not Help LDC
SOME HISTORY
APAC Remember the 1970s price spike?
APAC Legacy of Henry Wallace
Ritchie/Ristau Crisis by Design
Ritchie Impact of GATT
IATP History of De-Coupling
Naylor et al Legacy of Crisis
Naylor et al Farm Bill Basics
DeepDishTV Farm Crisis 1986 video
APAC 96 "Freedom to Farm" Series
See Historical Videos below from NFFC, CRL, LRV, Donahue
FARMER SUPPORT
NFFC Key Farmer Groups Leading these issues in the US
WORLD SUPPORT
IATP Africa Group Calls for price floors, supply management
Campaign EU Farmer & Consumer Support
European Community EC Plan for Minimum Price & Supply Management (IATP)
Via Campesina supports these key NFFC Policies
Via Campesina 200,000,000 strong
MORE DEPTH
NFFC US Solution: The Food from Family Farms Act
IATP Fair Farm Bill Series
FWW Corporate Power vs Farm Bill
APAC Farmer Livelihoods Worldwide
FSLC-LAF African Amer. Cotton Study
APAC Real Evidence FOR Price Foors
IATP
US Sugar as Model Program
IATP Sugar Prog Factsheet
GDAE Corn Sweetener Implicit Subsidies
IATP WTO Decade of Dumping
APAC (ppt/pdf) World Supply Management
ECONOMETRIC SUPPORT
(85 & 90 Farm Bills, strong support for these proposals)
This is the old FAPRI, pre-internet, so there's not much online. First see here citations and discussion of FAPRI research:
IFPRI Elimination of Subsidies
APAC POLYSYS
APAC Subsidies and Production
GDAE 5 Econ. Studies p. 21
Naylor I (FAPRI Chart)
Naylor II (See text; Footnotes;
Naylor All Full pdf pp. 11,19-22)
Ritchie & Ristau (Pages 11-15; Footnotes # 13, 19, 21.)
Kaiser Support Against Corporate Dairy
Bailey MN: Only Option to increase income
Brad video with FAPRi charts
NFU-Ca Corporate Profits Documented
See my Food Crisis 101 Primer, below
