We have a collective responsibility to address these systemic injustices with deep roots in our food and agriculture system, and to forge a new world of true equity and inclusion for all.
NFFC Statement on CARES Act Implementation
Congress must use future COVID-19 aid to help address longstanding inequities in our agriculture sector, avoid further corporate consolidation, and rebuild diversified local food systems.
Farm and Environmental Organizations Rebuke New USDA Regulatory Review
USDA could have adopted a regulatory approach that sought to ensure that any deregulated GMOs and their accompanying pesticides would not cause harm, yet their published rule states that public comments focused on concerns around pesticide overuse, habitat and biodiversity destruction, and the creation of more herbicide-resistant weeds were outside the scope of this rulemaking process and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) authority.
After 30 Years, the Small Business Administration Recognizes Farmers
NFFC and other farming organizations pressured SBA to provide equal access to all small businesses, but remain concerned that small, non-commodity farmers have still been left out.
SBA Allows Farmers to Apply for Economic Disaster Loans
Congress must continue applying pressure to US agencies to help all sectors of the farming community—especially small farmers, ranchers, and dairies—through future economic recovery deals.
Groups call on Harvard University to Stop Land Grabs
A national conversation about large-scale land investments by corporations and the ramifications for independent producers and workers who put food on our tables is long overdue.
We Have Always Had the Solution to Crises Like COVID-19
NFFC has always worked with family farmers to advocate for policies that support healthy, sustainable communities and prevent crises like COVID-19.
Farm Groups urge USDA to Spend Coronavirus Money, Support Dairy Farmers
NFFC has called for emergency direct payments scaled to to dairy farm size and supply management to prevent farmers from depending on export markets.
April 17: #StayHomeButNotSilent
Just as the 19 landless peasants in Brazil who died in 1996 demanding agrarian reform and other attributes of Food Sovereignty, we must continue to honor their struggle to create a just and equitable food system.
On April 14 tell Congress: LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND
On April 14, let your Members of Congress know that no one in the food system should be left behind, especially during this health and economic crisis.
COVID-19 Stimulus Package for the Food System
The fourth stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 is already being developed. on the President, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce to declare a national disaster in the agriculture and seafood sectors to unlock existing federal disaster funding and services, and enable Congress to appropriate further relief funds for the farm and seafood sector. In addition, federal agencies must use every tool available to keep people in their homes, on the land, and on the water.