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Even before the war in Iran set off a wave of rising costs, several products were predicted to get more expensive this year. Now some things will cost even more.
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"According to the USDA about a quarter of every dollar Americans spend on vegetables is tied to farm production ... according to U.S. tax law...The rest of the cost of growing a tomato is mostly transportation and import taxes."
EU vote on new GMOs: Wrong for farmers, wrong for consumers, wrong for nature. “This isn’t about innovation—it’s about allowing a handful of big biotech and pesticide corporations like Bayer to make ever more profits on the back of millions of farmers, consumers, and nature” — @foeeurope.bsky.social
Western countries have condemned Iran’s restrictions on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a breach of international law, yet have stayed quiet on the United States' actions in the region.
Just horrible! Our public servants want to serve the public. Let them do it.
The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
The #Iranwar is not good. "By year’s end, in the most dire projections by the United Nations and others, millions across Asia could be pushed into poverty."
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
Many business owners said they weren’t sure how easy the #tariff refund process would be, particularly given Mr. Trump’s stated opposition to returning the money.
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Are we surprised? #USMCA is up for review. We need to push the #USTR to make it protect our privacy rights, labor rights, the environment and increase consumer protections.
Pratt Institute is hosting a conversation with Cuba's Ambassador to the UN on Monday.
April 20th, 2026
6:00-8:00pm
Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall Auditorium (61 Saint James Place, Brooklyn NY 11238) Open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
RSVP here: forms.gle/DbNJnopmCe3Q...
A Chef who knows how difficult it can be to fight famine.
“In America, you can have a 2% or 3% increase and people will manage,” he said. “But in places like Haiti, they don’t serve you a kilo of rice, they serve you one ounce at a time. Those people are going to be suffering the consequences.”
Another wonderful in depth look at the long-term effects of the blockades of the Gulf of Hormuz. The effects WILL BE long-term.
1/ Today's Farm Policy News Summary covers how a new survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation shows that the vast majority of U.S. #farmers — roughly 70% — are unable to #afford all of the #fertilizer they need this season.
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The USMCA rigged trade against working people across North America.
Join us in saying "Enough!"
Learn more about the Cross-Border #DaysOfSolidarity against Trump's Rigged Trade Agenda >>
daysofsolidarity.org
#Trade #NAFTA #USMCA #FairTrade
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End the Investor State Dispute System in all trade agreements. They are secretive proceedings that benefit multinational corporations to the detriment of local environmental, labor and consumer protection and privacy laws.
The U.S. is “not in a position right now where Iran is begging for a deal because it wants to avoid an escalation,” says Robert Malley, former U.S. negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal. “They believe, rightly or wrongly, that they could sustain the pain longer than the U.S. can.”
Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: SYSTEM FAILURE. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or at iatp.org.
As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this crisis go much deeper, and the solutions may lie in an approach called agroecology. Listen to Ep.1 of Agroecology Uprooted now! www.iatp.org/agroecology-...
New York organic farmers joined a coalition of environmental groups last week to sue the EPA over its deregulating of greenhouse gas emissions.
The lawsuit challenges the legality of the EPA’s rollback of vehicle emissions regulations and its repeal of the endangerment finding.
TWO DAYS: Trump called the USMCA “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made by far.”
The truth: the trade deficit is bigger and manufacturing is down.
Join us for a briefing by Rethink Trade on their report "Six Years Later: Rosy USMCA Promises Meet Reality."
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
No one "wins" a war, one survives.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/w...
It's not just farmers in #Vietnam, consumers throughout Asia suffer the knock off effects of the current #war in the Middle East.
#trade #Hormuz
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The Administration says it is pro family. But it seems that doesn't mean family farmers.
This is in the UK not the US unfortunately.
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"Manufacturing job share has been dwindling in nearly all middle- and high-income countries." Without an industrial policy good, union protected manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
Trump’s unacceptable demands at the WTO on behalf of Big Tech blew up the meeting and, ironically, means that countries now have the space to tax imports of digital goods.
The great @aimewilliams.bsky.social joins to break down what’s happened since “Liberation Day” 2025—why US imports actually rose, and what comes next after the Supreme Court overturned Trump’s tariffs.
Trump called the #USMCA “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made by far.”
The truth: the trade deficit is bigger & manufacturing is down.
Hear a briefing by Rethink Trade on their report "Six Years Later: Rosy USMCA Promises Meet Reality." 👇👇
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Very interesting perspective to be aware of.
A month in, it has now fully sunk in. The Financial Times just titles it: The global wave of energy rationing!
Data-rich article on the horrible suffering of demand destruction worldwide and governments in crisis mode.
@katemac.bsky.social
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