Just Foods

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RAFI featured in Lexicon of Sustainability

June 17, 2014
The Lexicon of Sustainability recently released a Story Bank with insightful interviews from leading experts and advisors in the sustainability movement. We're honored to be featured as the first interview with RAFI's Just Foods Director Michael Sligh.
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FY 2015 requests to USDA

April 4, 2014
Our requests for FY2015, on behalf of 58 organizations and businesses, include funding and report language that enhance public plant breeding for the 21st century.
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Cary Fowler explains the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

April 3, 2014
“If we don’t have crop diversity, we don’t have food security. If we don’t have food security, we aren’t going to have physical security." Cary Fowler talks to RAFI about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and new documentary, Seeds of Time.
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2014 Farm Bill Analysis: Organic Agriculture

February 24, 2014
While U.S. consumer demand for organic grows exponentially, domestic production to meet that demand has not kept up, requiring greater imports of organic production to fill the gap. The organic program funding in the new Farm Bill will help U.S. farmers and handler better meet that demand.
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[Action Alert] Save Organics in the 2014 Farm Bill

January 9, 2014
What's at stake here? Critical assistance for organic farmers through the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. If we don't act NOW, this program could be completely defunded -- stripping farmers of a vital source of support in helping meet growing demand for organic food and to create local jobs.
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Tom Trantham: "RAFI told me the truth."

December 26, 2013
"At the lowest time of my life as a farmer, RAFI appeared. And RAFI told me the truth." RAFI board member and legendary farmer Tom Trantham gives us an end-of-the-year video message.
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