Connecting the Dots: Why Conservation Compliance Measures are Important to our Health

What are the links between the Farm Bill’s conservation programs and public health?

Join us Wednesday, October 17, for a coalition web forum to learn about these critical links and why they are important. While the 2008 Farm Bill has expired, the opportunity to make a difference has not!

Click here to register!

Featuring:

-Ryan Stockwell, National Wildlife Federation

What is Conservation Compliance and why is it essential to our agriculture system and the environment?

-Roni Neff, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

What does Conservation Compliance have to do with health? Why is cutting this program such a concern?

-Ferd Hoefner, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

What are the current policy issues surrounding Conservation Compliance–especially in the light of the Farm Bill’s expiration and the many unknowns as we move forward?

-Moderated by Rebecca Klein, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

This edition of the Healthy Farms Healthy People web forum series is being sponsored and organized by Coalition steering committee member, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future through a grant from the National Wildlife Federation.


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