Urban agriculture panel stands up to Trump cuts
Those goals aren’t in keeping with the new administration, which has pledged to direct resources toward traditional farming and to bar any programs with a hint of diversity, equity and inclusion.
By Marc Heller
E and E News
11/05/202
Excerpt:
Faced with a White House that doesn’t care much for big-city farming, a federal advisory panel committed to urban agriculture appears to be going out with a bang.
“We have been met with nothing but roadblocks,” said Kaben Smallwood, the panel’s chair and president and CEO of Symbiotic Aquaponic, a McAlester, Oklahoma, company that combines fish farming and growing plants in water.
The Advisory Committee on Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production — established by the 2018 farm bill and convened during the Biden administration — met three times in September.
That alone was an accomplishment, a result of pressuring the Trump administration to meet the legal requirement of three meetings per year, Smallwood said.
In what’s looking like a parting gesture, the committee defied the Trump administration by calling for urban agriculture grants frozen by the Agriculture Department to be released immediately and for the program — proposed for elimination under the administration’s budget request — to be made permanent.
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