Carbon markets place a monetary value on soil carbon sequestration while ignoring the environmental benefits that a system based on agroecology, economic parity, and social equity creates.
NFFC at the UN Committee on World Food Security
We live in a complex and globalized world, and family farmers need a voice on the international stage that speaks truth to the corporate power that is undermining our livelihoods.
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.
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.
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.
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.
November 5 Candidates’ Forum to Shed Light on Food Solutions
To learn how 2020 presidential candidates are thinking about this socio-economic-environmental crisis, a group of non-profit organizations in and near New Hampshire representing food providers, small businesses, eaters, and educators spent several months planning a candidates’ forum.
It’s Time for the US Secretary of Agriculture to Apologize to American Family Dairy Farmers
I would strongly urge the Secretary to support reasonable dairy programs that would give all dairy farmers a chance to survive, and not force many more of them out of business.
Farmers Need a Bill Of Rights—Just Like Everyone Else
Rural people are entitled to the right to live in healthy, vigorous communities that have quality schools, medical care and opportunities for all.
La Via Campesina Responds to US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
North America LVC organizations ask their respective legislatures to vote against USMCA in its current form to advance our ongoing struggle for food sovereignty.
The Current Farm Crisis Offers Opportunity For Change
In these times of low farm prices, devastating floods, massive soil loss, wildfires and people demanding an ethical, healthy diet, the time could be ripe to end our system of industrial farming and replace it with agroecology.
Farmers For a Green New Deal: An Online Forum
Pesticide Action Network and National Family Farm Coalition co-hosted a webinar featuring family farmers. The focus of their conversation was the Green New Deal, a nonbinding resolution introduced in the US House of Representatives early February with very little content on food and agriculture.