3. Input, Distribution, and Marketing Infrastructure

Conventional farmers that grow annual crops are able to easily procure, distribute, and market their products through systems that have benefited from government support for decades, if not longer.

Perennial farmers, meanwhile, generally have limited access to suppliers, distributors, and marketing opportunities, limiting their ability to expand production. Congress should address this bottleneck by providing states with annual block grants to enhance the production, distribution, and marketing of perennial crops. Modeled after the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (but unlike the SCBGP, it would not be restricted to specialty crops), this new initiative would help develop regional markets, while ensuring that perennial production proliferates throughout the country. To spur the development of new products and markets, Congress should also create a funding pool for perennial operations within the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program, which helps producers create or expand value-added farm businesses.³⁵⁷ Finally, as discussed above, USDA should utilize its funding authority under CCC to directly support perennial crops.³⁵⁸

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2. Creating the infrastructure
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4. B. Downstream: Emissions From Food Processing, Packaging, Marketing, and Waste
5. Effective Health Foods Versus Ineffective Drugs Governing and Marketing
6. Postproduction greenhouse gas emissions, while significant, have not been comprehensively catalogued in the United States.20
7. FOUNTAINS AND UNDERGROUND PIPES
8. Argentina in the Last Three Decades
9. 3. The Commodity Credit Corporation
10. Risk society and ecological modernization
11. The so-called ‘new institutionalism’ is a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of theories of the state and, like some of the other perspectives considered in this volume, it is by no means only a theory of the state
12. Governance is shorthand for the pursuit of collective interests and the steering and coordination of society.
13. Conclusion
14. Contents
15. The food system encompasses the full life cycle of food. In addition to agriculture, this includes activities that take place off the farm
16. Introduction