Foreword: Don’t Call it the “Farm Bill,” Call it the “Food Bill.”
by Michael Pollan

Introduction: A Food and Farm Bill for the 21st Century
by Fred Kirschenmann

Part 1: Why the Farm Bill Matters

1. Somewhere in America’s Heartland…
2. Why the Farm Bill Matters
3. What Is the Farm Bill?
4. Promises Broken: The Two Lives of Every Farm Bill…
5. Where It All Started
6. Family Farms to Mega-Farms
7. The Farm Bill’s Hunger Connection
8. The Conservation Era Begins—Again
9. Freedom to Farm and the Legacy of Record Payoffs
10. Who Gets the Money?
11. The Multiple Benefits of Skilled Farmers and Healthy
Rural Lands
12. World Trade Organization Rulings and the Era of Green Payments
13. New Zealand: Still Subsidy-free After All These Years

Part 2: Wedge Issues

14. Wedge Issue Politics
15. Hunger, Health, and Nutrition: Changing the Policy Palette
16. Energy: Farming in an Era of Fossil Fuel Scarcity
17. Healthy Lands, Healthy People:
Why Farmlands Matter to Conservation

Part 3: Turning the Tables

18. Turning the Tables
25 Ideas Whose Time Has Come
Join the Food Fight
Resources

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