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Browse 100+ resources on food systems law and policy.
Land-Use Tools to Protect Pollinators
This issue brief summarizes existing efforts to protect pollinators through federal, state, and local policies. It explores strategies to improve land-use tools, interventions that can promote pollinator populations, and options for additional policy innovations to support pollinator health.
Topic: Other Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersAppealing for Relief
This report finds that farmers denied federal direct farm operating and ownership loans won only 17 percent of appeals and examines the basis for those denials. It identifies opportunities for reform at every step of the appeals process.
Topic: Other Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersBuilding Resilient Local Meat Supply Chains
This issue brief provides an overview of the federal and state policy landscape for meat inspections as they relate to on-farm slaughter practices and outlines policy considerations.
Topic: Other Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersEnergy and Equity in Cannabis Cultivation
The cannabis industry already accounts for at least one percent of all electricity consumption in the United States. The resource explores how lawmakers can fairly and effectively regulate electricity use by growers.
Topic: Other Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersAddressing Consolidation in Agriculture
This issue brief analyzes USDA’s response to Executive Order 14036, entitled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” and the extent to which it follows the president’s directive.
Topic: Other Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersSeafood Fraud
This report examines the legal and regulatory framework for preventing, detecting, and enforcing against seafood fraud, and makes recommendations for policymakers to address the issue of seafood fraud both domestically and abroad.
Topic: Other Audience: Policymakers, ResearchersLegal Trends for Farm and Food Operations in the New England Region
This report analyzes cases placed through the Legal Food Hub and the use of an online resource library to document and analyze recurring legal issues in order to relate these regional trends to national findings.
Topic: Other Audience: Growers, Policymakers, ResearchersDefining and Regulating Agritourism
This report provides a comparative analysis of state legislative approaches to agritourism from 2019-2020, including definitions of agritourism, and other areas of importance, such as liability, zoning, funding, taxation, and licensing.
Topic: Energy, Other Audience: Community Organizations, Policymakers, ResearchersConsiderations for a Shared Vision of Vermont Soil Policy
“Soil health” encompasses far more than its name discloses. There appears to be a meaningful role for the state legislature to play in developing effective healthy soils policy, building on community-led collaboration.
Topic: Other Audience: AttorneysFarm & Food Law: A Guide for Lawyers in the Legal Food Hub
This guide provides legal information to help attorneys build successful relationships with and provide support to small-scale farmers, food entrepreneurs, and other related nonprofit and community organizations in Vermont.