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Uprooted Episode 44: The Affordable Clean Energy Rule Sep 12, 2018

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Josh talks with Tara Ritter about the rollback of the Clean Power Plan, which was proposed by the Obama administration and held up in the courts. The replacement, the Affordable Clean Energy Rule is a thinly veiled attempt to prop up the dying coal industry at the expense of the expanding clean energy sector, including the job boom it would create in rural areas.

Uprooted Episode 43: Crisis By Design Sep 04, 2018

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Josh talks with IATP Executive Director, Juliette Majot, about one of IATP's foundational documents, Crisis By Design, written by IATP's founder, Mark Ritchie, with Kevin Ristau. The piece showed how the farm crisis of the 1980's was the result of purposeful actions by corporate executives to undermine government policies that ensured family farmers get a fair price. They also discuss how the landscape has changed in the last 32 years, and what an update to this document might look like.

Uprooted: NAFTA Deadline Special Aug 31, 2018

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In a quickly put together special episode, Josh and Karen Hansen-Kuhn talk about what has happened this week with NAFTA as today's deadline looms to submit the intent to sign the deal to Congress. You can read Karen's Op-Ed in The Hill here: http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/404566-opaque-nafta-talks-leave-farmers-in-the-dark

Uprooted Episode 42: Gaming the Grass Fed Beef Market Aug 20, 2018

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Josh talks with Ben Lilliston about the growth of the grass fed beef market, and how global agribusiness is using labeling loopholes to sell imported grass fed beef as "product of the U.S.A." You can read Ben's comment to USDA here.

Uprooted Episode 41: Brexit Aug 09, 2018

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Josh talks with Sharon Treat about the troubling food safety aspects of the latest UK government white paper on Brexit and how it may affect trade with the U.S. and Europe.

Uprooted Episode 40: Giving to farmers with one hand, taking a whole lot more with the other Aug 07, 2018

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Josh and Steve Suppan talk about the $12 billion aid package to farmers who have been affected by tariff retaliation. We're also talking about Steve's blog on how USDA helps High Frequency Traders now; promises help for farmers later, dealing with how the release of the World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate has been changed by USDA to benefit high frequency Wall Street trading firms.

Uprooted Episode 39: The Science of Beef and Greenhouse Gases Jul 20, 2018

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In our recent report Emissions Impossible: How big meat and dairy are heating up the planet, we teamed up with GRAIN to analyze the greenhouse gas footprints of the largest meat and dairy corporations, and debunked the idea that decreasing emissions intensity would, by itself, lead to an overall reduction in emissions.

Uprooted Episode 38: Chatting with the IATP Board Jun 27, 2018

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IATP hosted its annual board meeting from June 24-26. Three members of the IATP Board of Directors, Becky Glass, Sivan Kartha and Board Chair Pamela Saunders, joined Josh Wise to discuss how they got involved with IATP, the challenges facing the institute today and what gives them hope in today's world.

Uprooted Episode 37: Missing the Mark(et) Jun 18, 2018

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Note: This podcast is being released a couple of weeks after it was recorded. Josh talks with Ben Lilliston about reforms to the Farm Bill and trade policy that could help support farmers stuck in the current low-price, export-dependent system, while responding to growing consumer demand for more sustainable food. While conventional markets struggle, the U.S. has fast-growing, high-value markets and a reformed Farm Bill could help aid farmers in their transitions to access those markets. Read our full report here.

Uprooted Episode 36: Neo-Extractivism Jun 15, 2018

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Latin American countries have enshrined several progressive rights in their constitutions, however, the push for natural resource extraction has put those rights in conflict with the economic development pushes of their governments. Josh talks with Karen Hansen-Kuhn about the history of extractive industry in Latin America and how global trade and development policies are influencing the conflicts between industry and social movements. Karen recently attended a conference on the subject of Neo-Extractivism in Ecuador.

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