Organizations urge Senators Thune and Rounds (SD) to amend S.2744, The U.S. Beef Integrity Act, to correct the current misuse of the “Product of USA” label on imported beef products within a comprehensive mandatory COOL bill.
Sustainable Food and Agriculture Groups Urge Congress to reject USMCA
The new USMCA takes a step back in other areas, reading like a de-regulatory wish list for global agribusiness firms operating in all three countries.
End-of-Year Appeal for NFFC Support: Because Someone Has To
We are tired of seeing peoples’ livelihoods, the land, and our food systems minimized and destroyed. Family farmers are not only essential to a healthy and just food system, but they are also a major part of the solution to climate change.
NFFC Attends Kickoff for UN Decade for Family Farming
We would like to emphasize the importance of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas, which should be the source of inspiration for future policy convergence processes here in the CFS, and for the public policy process related to this Decade.
Twenty Years Later the “Spirit of Seattle” Lives On!
The mutual enemy that brought so many family farmers, farm/food workers, fisher folk, and indigenous activists to the Battle of Seattle was industrial agribusiness and neoliberal capitalism.
NFFC’s 2019 December Newsletter is Posted!
Staff updates, member news, and an array of great holiday gift ideas.
NOFA: Spreading Soil Health Practices, Keeping Fairness in Organic
For many organic farmers, care for the land goes hand in hand with a commitment to social justice.
Civil Society Organizations Demand US Promote Agroecology
The climate and financial crises farmers now face suggest that it’s time the US government practice sound public policy and do everything possible to promote agroecology as the best hope to address corporate concentration, protect the earth, provide for rural communities, and achieve food sovereignty.
Food Solutions Forum Analysis for New Hampshire
NH residents spend $4 billion each year purchasing food sourced outside the state. If each NH resident purchased $5 of food each week from a NH farm, these farms would earn $349 million of income — 1.5 times current sales!
Mini America-the-Bountiful Tour Along the Gulf of Mexico
After touring MAC farmers and fishermen near the Gulf, they visited the Provosts who are fighting to keep their sugar cane farm, one of the few such farms now owned by a Black family in Louisiana.