Agricultural and food justice advocate Vanessa García Polanco ’18 will present at the 2022 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Sept. 27, discussing “The Exception and Not the Norm: Becoming an Agricultural and Food Justice Advocate.” An alumna of the University, she has received numerous honors for her work and brings her experiences and identities as an Afro-Dominican immigrant to her policy and advocacy activities. .
Melissa Vatterott, food and farm policy director at the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, St. Louis, has issued a public comment on the U.S. Department of Agriculture notice entitled "Request for Comments: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad". The Missouri Coalition for the Environment appreciates the opportunity to comment.
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has led a letter to congressional leaders seeking a major funding boost for an array of USDA programs over the next decade. USDA also has launched an initiative to quantify the climate benefits of CRP contracts.