A Minimum Support Price (MSP, in India, and parity, in the US), is the only viable solution to ensure justice and fairness within our food systems.
NFFC Comments on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Implementation on Broadband
For-profit companies are not interested in providing services to isolated communities that will not compensate them or provide a profit for their investment. Small and medium providers, cooperatives, non-profits, and municipalities should be encouraged to fill this gap.
NFFC Comments on the Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Competition in Consumer Goods and Retail
NFFC’s food sovereignty commitment is at peril because as producers, transformers, and consumers our dependency to a food system controlled by corporations hurts our economy, our health, and our freedom.
Dairy Quotas Would Help Our Family Farms
The administration and leaders in Congress have expressed their intention to promote fair competition and support rural communities. To seriously address the dairy crisis, they must stop pretending that exporting our way out of the crisis will benefit family-scale farmers, the environment and all those who rely on dairy.
Speak Truth to Power, and Call Out Evil
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NFFC Comments on Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Indoor/Outdoor Work Settings
From the farmer, rancher, and commercial fishery point of view the relevance of cost-benefit of any regulation is fundamental but is secondary to the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
NFFC comments on FNS Information Collection Needs due to COVID-19
Our first concern is that, in the rush to provide service, some important norms may be overlooked by State officials; our second concern relates to the final use of the data collected.
NFFC posts comments to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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.