Report

The 2023 Farm Bill: FBLE Recommendations Overview

November 2022

Authors

Jessica Grubesic, Emily Murphy, Emma Scott,

The Farm Bill Law Enterprise undertook a multi-year process identify legislative opportunities to advance shared public values through the farm bill in response to challenges in addressing the climate crisis, strengthening the U.S. food system, advancing equity and racial justice, stabilizing the food sector economy, and improving access to nutritious food. This document provides an overview of FBLE’s 2023 Farm Bill recommendations.

For references and endnotes, please refer to the PDF version of this document.

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Executive Summary

FBLE undertook a multi-year process to study the farm bill and identify legislative opportunities to advance shared public values in response to the challenges we face in addressing the climate crisis, strengthening the U.S. food system, advancing equity and racial justice for farmers and food system workers, stabilizing the food sector economy, and improving access to nutritious food.

Over 2022, FBLE published five full-length, substantive Reports offering recommendations across five areas:

Climate & Conservation
Equity in Agricultural Production & Governance
Farm Viability
Farmworkers
Food Access & Nutrition

This document provides an overview of FBLE’s 2023 Farm Bill recommendations, which represent an early attempt to infuse policy ideas into the next farm bill conversation. More detailed recommendations, as well as specific legislative actions that will further their implementation, can be found in each of FBLE’s 2023 Farm Bill Reports.

Find the complete set of reports from the Farm Bill Legal Enterprise at farmbilllaw.org.

Acknowledgements

This Overview was drafted and prepared based on the material published in the five referenced FBLE 2023 Farm Bill Reports. FBLE is grateful for the financial support of the GRACE Communications Foundation and Charles M. Haar Food and Health Law and Policy Fund. Layout and design: Najeema Holas-Huggins

Suggested Citation

Jessica Grubesic et al., Farm Bill Law Enterprise, The 2023 Farm Bill: FBLE Recommendations Overview (Nov. 1, 2022), https://www.farmbilllaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/FBLE-Recommendations-Overview.pdf. 

Jessica Grubesic

Jessica Grubesic was a student at Harvard Law School in the Food Law and Policy Clinic and contributed to the Farm Bill Law Enterprise 2023 Farm Bill reports and overview.

Emma Scott

Director, Food and Agriculture Clinic, Vermont Law and Graduate School

Emma Scott is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Food and Agriculture Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Her work focuses on food system workers and food system policy at the federal, state, and local level. Previously she served as the Associate Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She received her BS in Social Sciences with a concentration in Cross-Cultural Studies and International Development from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and her JD from Harvard Law School.

Emily Murphy

Emily Murphy was a student at Harvard Law School in the Food Law and Policy Clinic and contributed to the Farm Bill Law Enterprise 2023 Farm Bill reports and overview.