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Doug Gurian-Sherman is a senior scientist in the Food and Environment..
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This project on updating parity emerged from nearly a decade of collaborative agricultural policy analysis, building out from a 2012 Symposium on the Farm Bill at American University School of International Service.
FLATOW: Richard Gurian-Sherman is a senior scientist with the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, and.
Research partnerships ensued to untangle the deleterious impacts of US farm policies. In both domestic and international realms, the specter of subsidized exports, of dumping, of collapsed prices, has long haunted farmers and those who know their struggle.
And yet, in the Washington Beltway, discourses of scarcity reigned; and in the burgeoning food movements, myths that subsidies are the root cause of an irrational food system further obscured the picture. Only a few of us could talk openly about the longstanding, global problems of surplus.
Farm justice elders, George Naylor, Brad Wilson, Ben Burkett, the late Kathy Ozer, and Ralph Paige worked to convey the complicated truth of who wins (factory farms, grain dealers) and who loses (everyone who farms and eat