Food And Farms Summit Focuses On Hunger, Health
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some people are cut off from food
choices, according to Jolly.
While “capitalism and democ
racy has produced abundance,”
he said, our food distribution sys
tem is failing to meet its demo
cratic principle of offering maxi
mum choice to individuals.
“If we have the precondition
for the individual to flourish, why
can’t we make that happen in
our society?”
According to Jolly, the average
CEO in the U.S. makes about
2,000 times as much money as a
factory line worker. “One has to
wonder if that’s a democratic so
ciety,” he said.
But Jolly also pointed out
forces that are at work to solve
problems in the food system.
These include the rapid, recent
growth of the small farm move
ment and local food initiatives
across the country.
“The overall movement is alive
and throbbing with optimism,"
he said. “We need to catch and
ride this wave.”
The USD A had spent much of
the 20th century “expediting
small farmers from their farms in
the name of ‘bread for the
world,’” Jolly said.
Then, in 1997, a group of black
farmers from
the South
sued the
USDA for
policies they
claimed were
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ry against
small-scale
producers.
In re
sponse, Dan
Glickman,
U.S. secretary
of agriculture
at the time.
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farming. In 1998, he started the
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claiming it was “time to act,” to
reverse the trends of the 20th
century. The resulting Small
Farm Policy “laid out a major
change in USDA philosophy and
approaches,” Jolly said.
Various inititatives were
launched to help small farmers,
including the Fund for Rural
America and the Sustainable Ag
riculture Research and Educa
tion (SARE) project.
While these programs are a
step in the right direction, Jolly
said that much more must be
done to provide direct assistance
to small farm innovators, and to
“craft a strategy to allow farmers
to make investments to get them
over a hump.
“Small farmers need to be on
the cutting edge of change just
like big companies. We have
come a long way since 1997, but
we still have a long way to go,”
he said.
Jolly called the expanding or
ganic movement and this year's
release of national organic rules
by the USDA a “good step,” but
warned against the ills this
growth could bring.
“As organic ag goes main
stream, it is tak : ng on many of
the patterns, syndromes, and
problems that we notice within
the conventional ag system,” he
said. /
Jolly ended his message on an
optimistic note.
“We have major challenges in
our food system,” he said. “We
also have major opportunities. ’*
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