No Time to Waste: An Opportunity to Tackle Food Loss and Waste in the Next Farm Bill 

Andrew Zhang is a third year law student at Harvard Law School and a guest contributor to this blog. Earlier this November, with the passage of a continuing resolution that ended the longest government shutdown in United States history, Congress extended the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the 2018 Farm Bill—the nation’s current and most recent Farm Bill) for one more year. This extension—the third of its kind since the 2018 Farm Bill first expired…

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Is Congress Still Committed to Conservation? The Uncertain Future of Conservation in the Farm Bill 

A man stands in knee high water taking measurements, surrounded by various grasses, on a sunny day with several clouds in the sky.

Andrew Zhang is a third year law student at Harvard Law School and a guest contributor to this blog. In the shadow of a government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finds its conservation programs facing an uncertain future. In some respects, there may be areas of stability or relief. For one, despite the 2018 Farm Bill’s expiration this…

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