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Who really won the U.S. versus Canada dairy trade dispute?

NFFC February 8, 2022NFFC In the News

In essence, the USMCA panel decision affirms Canada’s right to maintain its supply management program but could undermine Canadian farmers and food processing workers’ ability to benefit economically from local milk and value-added food products.

Climate ChangeDairysupply mangementTradeUSMCA

Watch | Farm Talks: Why US Farmers and Intellectuals Want India to Adopt MSP

NFFC February 6, 2022NFFC In the News

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.

Indian farmersparitypolicy solutions

Division reigns among governments in UN Committee on World Food Security

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

With its narrow focus on finance and corporate-owned products and technologies, the Summit’s outcomes will exacerbate inequality, debt, dispossession and extraction, especially in the global south, and further undermine the small-scale food provision on which most people worldwide depend.

civil societycorporate captureUNFSS 2021

Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in Brazil

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

More than half of the farmland in the United States is expected to change hands in the next 10-15 years, and TIAA and other pension fund managers are major players, wielding incredible economic power,

CongressFarm Billfarmland grabsTIAA

The UN is holding a summit…Why are so many people upset about it?

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

Farmers, ecologists, academics—and even some of the UN’s own food policy experts—say the organization is favoring corporate interests over human welfare.

civil societycounter-mobilizationfood systems summitUnited Nations

As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

The Constitution gives states the authority to oversee land transactions, so it is difficult to get a true feel at the federal level for how much agricultural land is owned by non-U.S. corporations or citizens.

appropriations billfarmland grabsfighting corporate captureTIAA

Deep Pockets in Farmland Investment Exacerbate Racial Inequities

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

Financier and corporate interest in farmland has driven small, Indigenous, and farmers of color around the world off their land, including Brazil where Harvard University and pension fund TIAA purchased large tracts of land to plant in soy and corn.

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Could Price Parity, Supply Management Change the Game for BIPOC Farmers?

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

According to a new coalition of farmers, growers, and academics led by the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), keeping existing farmers of color on the land—and helping new ones get started—will only be possible if they can get a price for their food that’s more than what it costs to produce it.

Disparity to ParityFair Pricesland accessracial justicesupply management

Dairy farmers facing crisis as milk consumption, prices decline

NFFC November 7, 2021NFFC In the News

On average, farmers are paid $1.45 for each gallon of milk that costs them $2 to produce.

dairy crisisfalling prices

US asks for dispute resolution in USMCA dairy spat with Canada

NFFC June 15, 2021NFFC In the News

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Dairysupply managementUSMCA

NFFC and allies disagree with EPA’s 2020 dicamba registration

NFFC June 15, 2021NFFC In the News

EPA staff felt constrained or muted in sharing their concerns on the dicamba registrations.

dicambaEPA scientistsstaff review

Environmental groups sue EPA on dicamba registration

NFFC June 15, 2021NFFC In the News

The EPA again “failed in its legal duties to ensure that the pesticide would not cause unreasonable harm to farmers and farming communities as well as to the environment and hundreds of endangered species.”

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