Expanded data collection will illustrate whether farmers – regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, and farm type – are treated equally by lending institutions, both public and private.
Solidarity
We work with NFFC to grow the only thing that will ever affect the Farm Bill and achieve greater equity in agriculture and society at large (’cause the revolution won’t be legislated) – our collective solidarity.
NFFC Holiday Wishes and Offerings 2021
We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season, and urge you to check out the offerings from our members below if you’re buying gifts this year.
Circling back on late 2021
Thankfully, there were some positive results from our efforts so far this year, from bills introduced by congressional allies to NFFC’s launch of our long-awaited new dairy pricing proposal.
NFFC welcomes House Build Back Better Act, urges quick Senate action
The $1.9 trillion package invests almost $90 billion in rural and agriculture programs and initiatives to combat climate change, address rural disinvestment, and promote racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Over 90 Farmer, Labor, Environmental, Consumer Groups Demand Fair Dairy Policy Reform
The policy principles on which the MFDA is based will ensure transparency and fair prices for family dairy farmers, guarantee reliable and reasonably-priced dairy products for consumers, and revitalize rural areas economically and environmentally – all at significant savings to taxpayers.
National Call for Fair Prices, Systemic Dairy Policy Reform
We need a new U.S. dairy policy oriented towards small and mid-size dairy farms rather than corporate agribusiness, and call on our political leadership to support farmer- and worker-centered systemic U.S. dairy policy reform. To support true sustainability from our kitchen table to our planet, we must support economic justice for dairy producers.
Division reigns among governments in UN Committee on World Food Security
With its narrow focus on finance and corporate-owned products and technologies, the Summit’s outcomes will exacerbate inequality, debt, dispossession and extraction, especially in the global south, and further undermine the small-scale food provision on which most people worldwide depend.
Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in Brazil
More than half of the farmland in the United States is expected to change hands in the next 10-15 years, and TIAA and other pension fund managers are major players, wielding incredible economic power,
The UN is holding a summit…Why are so many people upset about it?
Farmers, ecologists, academics—and even some of the UN’s own food policy experts—say the organization is favoring corporate interests over human welfare.
As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers
The Constitution gives states the authority to oversee land transactions, so it is difficult to get a true feel at the federal level for how much agricultural land is owned by non-U.S. corporations or citizens.
Deep Pockets in Farmland Investment Exacerbate Racial Inequities
Financier and corporate interest in farmland has driven small, Indigenous, and farmers of color around the world off their land, including Brazil where Harvard University and pension fund TIAA purchased large tracts of land to plant in soy and corn.