It includes supporting farm to school programs, farmers markets, youth markets, rights of farm workers, nutrition education, fair wages for food workers, community gardens, community supported agriculture, outreach for and access to the federal nutrition programs and new farmer programs.
All in all, this looks to us like a save-Blanche-Lincoln program rather than a save-the-farmer program.
Young and teenage farmers' program for third-through-ninth graders.
Along with City Hall, which provides land and other help, the Intervale runs an incubator farmers' program to train farmers, some of them raising Asian vegetables, and some distributing free food to the needy.
It develops predictive models on top of that raw data to help farmers "program" their fields, Vollmar says.
Tory Field is an organizer, farmer, and Program Associate at Other Worlds. 1 "Position des Mouvements sociaux haïtiens sur le processus de 'reconstruction' d'Haïti," March 18 , 2010 2 Jonathan Katz, "Billions for Haiti, A Criticism for Every Dollar," Associated Press, March 5, 2010.
These include commitments on child labor, setting aside part of the estate for food production and sponsoring a farmer-training program developed with the United Nations.
That disparity helped endow the farmers' market program at Trinity with an aspect of social justice that speaks to the church's tradition of Afro-Christian liberation theology.
But in the new era of budget deficits, the Bush administration has eliminated the farmers market program for older people from next year's budget.
Those three companies, along with World Wildlife Fund, are part of the Better Cotton Initiative, a nonprofit that sets sustainable farming practices and runs farmer training programs in major producing countries such as China and India.
