BIOAg Campaign
Campaign Overview
Federal policy work
The Network also mobilizes people in Washington State to influence federal policy. To do this, we work with regional and national sustainable agriculture advocacy organizations: the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture and the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
For example, for the past several years the Network has worked with NCSA and SAC to secure funding in the Federal Farm Bill for the Conservation Security Program, which gives financial incentives to farmers for good environmental practices on working agricultural lands. We mobilize our members and others to contact policy makers to gain their support for funding the CSP.
The Network has also advocated for the inclusion and funding of many other sustainable agriculture programs in the Farm Bill, including Country of Origin labeling, organic certification cost sharing, the Women with Infants and Children Farmers Market Nutrition Program, and others.