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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.
Harvard and TIAA Involved in Destruction of Most Biodiverse Savannah in World
A new report details how Harvard University and U.S.-based pension fund TIAA are involved in forest firest burning in a key ecosystem — the Brazilian savannah (Cerrado).
Op-Ed by Patti Naylor – Reform Failing Agribusiness Model through Agroecology
U.S. agriculture policy needs to prioritize agroecology and ensure farmers’ rights to seeds, safe water, and pricing structures that ensure farm viability.