AGRICULTURE + FOOD SYSTEMS

Increase investments in urban food systems to increase access to nutritious foods while also fostering local and regional circular agro-economies
Support diversified green manufacturing in rural towns based on biodegradable agricultural feedstocks
Support the use of natural systems to absorb carbon
Ensure justice for Black farmers

Mandate living wages + fair labor standards for farmworkers + other food workers
Ensure parity pricing and supply management programs that guarantee working farmers a decent income above production costs
Socialize big agribusiness + dismantle the corporate oligopolies that control the farm input industry (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, machinery) and the food and fiber processing industry into cooperatives and public enterprises democratically owned by and serving consumers and working farm

Ban pesticides, herbicides, neonicotinoids, and all other known carcinogens or neurotoxins from public use
Rapidly phase out the use of biocides, chemical fertilizers and corporate farms
Phase out plastics as much as possible, starting with single-use plastics

Provide technical and financial assistance for regenerative organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry
Democratize food production*
Support land reform and a new homesteading program to give new farmers access to land and farming resources

Codify Rights of Nature
Protect public lands, water supplies, biodiversity, parks and green spaces
Use the Precautionary Principle to fully investigate all new products, substances, and technologies before widespread introduction