Platform - Green Party US
Section III. Ecological Sustainability
A. Climate Change
Declare a Climate Emergency
The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:
Regenerative Agriculture
The Green New Deal for agriculture will replace pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and large-scale industrialized factory farms based on monocropping and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations with regenerative organic agroecology by working farmers on small and medium-sized farms.
It will ban absentee and corporate ownership of farms and ranches.
It will subsidize the transition of farmers to organic production. It will provide community-owned farmland to enable farmers to stay on farms where land prices rise too high.
It will provide parity pricing and supply management to insure all working farmers have a decent income above their costs of production.
In coordination with the public manufacturing system, it will provide ecological farm machinery and regional food and fiber processing and manufacturing in farming districts.
Regenerative agriculture will be a major contributor to carbon drawdown by rebuilding carbon-rich living soil and integrating the agroecologies of farms into surrounding ecosystems.