|
This set of nine lessons is designed to help middle and high school teachers address controversial environmental issues within the agricultural sector. They help students understand the incentives facing agricultural decision makers as they make choices about food production and the environment. |
In Farmers and Ranchers Do We Trust?
Today farmers and ranchers are being asked, and often required, to carry out the environmental dreams and aspirations of city dwellers with no consideration for what is in the best interest of the farmer/rancher. In the last fifty years, farmers and ranchers have successfully fed the world and saved it from the impending famine predicted by population experts. Must they now continue to feed the world plus satisfy the environmental quality goals established by people who dream of a utopian world from developed urban centers? This seems to be the case.Date
Topics
Related Content
-
Don’t Let Federal Agencies Revoke Permits Without Consequence
For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as valid property rights.
-
The Next Era of American Conservation
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-based tools, and bottom-up approaches at the center.
-
Success Shouldn’t Trigger Stricter Rules
An amicus brief arguing the Ninth Circuit should reaffirm that the ESA’s experimental population program is meant to reward collaboration, not penalize it.
