We support the development of alternate methods of managing our land, forests, and water that will ensure that these resources are also available to our descendants. Also, we encourage increasing public awareness of the actual environmental, social, and human costs of chemically intense methods of agriculture. When people pay for the actual costs, they will recognize the economic advantages of producing safe, organically grown food.

We believe that farm programs and tax policies that give advantages to large, corporate farms over small farms can be changed. We favor the development of local or regional Land Trusts and land policies that allow small farmers to stay on their land.

We believe in the development of state-wide or bioregional systems so that we can become more self-reliant in meeting our basic needs. We call for a diversification of local economies to provide full employment while developing a sustainable economy.

We call for an end to the exploitation of any group of people or ecosystem to produce agricultural products. We support a ban on exportation of chemicals prohibited in our state or country to other states or countries. We also call for a ban on agricultural products that have a detrimental effect on ecosystems or exploit indigenous or other workers during their production and distribution. We support the rights of all farm workers. We encourage international agreements to stabilize commodity prices based on ecologically sustainable yields and to ensure that developing countries are provided the opportunity to participate in trade. We call for a restructuring of the World Bank and other financial institutions to serve ecological development and subsistence food needs of the Third World, instead of cash crops for export.

We support:

• Developing systems that promote regional self-reliance including family and community gardens and regional markets so that most of the food consumed within the state have been produced and processed within the state or region.
• Allocating resources for research of technologies that promote sustainable agriculture and timber management.
• Policies that encourage the use of ecologically sound pest control and fertilization.
• Policies that ensure that the actual environmental, human, and social costs of producing food by chemically intense agricultural methods become part of food costs.
• Developing programs for the marketing of safe, organically produced foods.
• Policies that motivate producers to enhance the long- term health of the soil.
• Policies that protect small farms and small landowners.
• Laws prohibiting exportation to other states or countries of agrochemicals that are prohibited in this state or country.
• Laws that protect the rights and health of migrant workers and the United Farm Workers.
• A ban on products that have had a detrimental effect on ecosystems or indigenous people during their production and distribution.
• A repeal of U.S. legislation that encourages exports of farm products in exchange for foreign-produced goods.
• Policies that provide for displaced workers as we make a transition to sustainable economies.