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Green Eating Guide Tips for making healthy food choices for you and the planet Guide: From farm to fork, growing our food, processing it and transporting it all use tremendous amounts of energy, water and chemicals. By making just a few small changes in our eating and buying habits, we can greatly reduce this impact. When we eat green, we help the environment by reducing global warming pollution -- and help ourselves by eating fresh and healthy food.
More Integrated Pest Management Please
Issue Paper: This February 2007 issue paper recommends specific actions for how Congress and USDA can increase the quantity and quality of Integrated pest management (IPM) assistance to farmers to improve air, water, soil and habitat.
Trouble on the Farm: Growing Up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities
Report: A report examining the disproportionate exposure to dangerous pesticides borne by children of farmers and farm workers, and the related threats to their health.
Fields of Change: A New Crop of American Farmers Finds Alternatives to Pesticides
Report: A study profiling 22 farmers from 16 states who, despite significant barriers, are switching from conventional pest management to profitable alternative agricultural practices that substantially reduce pesticide use.