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The US Farm Bill: What’s at Stake for our Food, Farmers, and Environment?
What is the Farm Bill, and why is it important? If you eat U.S. grown food, have ever received food assistance (like SNAP or school meals), work in occupations involving food, or care about clean air and water, you will not want to miss this discussion with faculty experts from the Center for Policy Research who will answer questions about the potential implications of the Farm Bill on Americans’ everyday lives.
On the surface, the U.S. Farm Bill might not sound very exciting to the typical person. Yet the 2024 Farm Bill will direct over $1 trillion in federal government spending over the next five years. It is at the foundation of our food assistance, food supply and farming systems. It has significant influence on farming livelihoods and rural development, as well as factors that affect our everyday lives, including what kinds of foods are grown and how they are grown, food prices and healthy food access, funding for food assistance programs, our climate, and much more.
October 16, 2024, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT | Virtual
Featured Research
Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts
Tomás Olivier, Sechindra Vallury
"Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts," co-authored by CPR Senior Research Associate, Tomás Olivier was published in Policy Studies Journal.
August 2024
Fiscal Implications of Disasters and the Managed Retreat Thereafter: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy
Qing Miao, Wei Guo, Yilin Hou, Meri Davlasheridze
“Fiscal Implications of Disasters and the Managed Retreat Thereafter: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy,” co-authored by CPR Senior Research Associate, Yilin Hou was published in Natural Hazards Review.
July 2024
Siobhan O'Keefe, Rick Welsh, Mercy Oppong, Ryan Fitzgerald, David Conner, Michelle Tynan, Nichole Price, Charlotte Quigle
“Machine Learning (ML) Platforms Can Contradict Dairy Scientists and Feed Firm Websites Regarding Dairy Cattle Performance from Feeding Seaweed Supplements,” co-authored by CPR Senior Research Associate, Rick Welsh was published in Choices.
August 2024
CPR Research Areas
Faculty in the Center for Policy Research (CPR) conduct a broad range of interdisciplinary research related to public policy in the following research areas:
- Education and Labor
- Population Health
- Social Policy and Inequality
- Econometrics
- Energy, Environment and Food Systems
- Public Finance
- Urban, Rural and Regional Studies
Center for Policy Design and Governance
Integrating policy, political and computational sciences in research and instruction to help scientists, practitioners and future public service leaders understand and address future governance challenges.
Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
Maxwell X Lab
Partnering with the public and nonprofit sectors, the X Lab leverages behavioral science and randomized controlled trials to create cost-effective solutions to complex problems.
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