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Groups Demand EPA Regulation of Factory Farm Pollution
On February 18, 2022, Environmental Leader highlighted a letter from Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, Indigenous Environmental Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, NFFC and nearly 30 additional signatories. The groups urged Congress to do everything in their power to require stronger EPA regulation of ...
Who really won the U.S. versus Canada dairy trade dispute?
Originally posted February 3, 2022. This statement from Karen Hansen-Kuhn (The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) breaks down the legally binding panel decision against Canada’s allocation of dairy Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) in the US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA). She also highlights NFFC’s dairy proposal, the Milk From Family Dairies Act, and the ways ...
Watch | Farm Talks: Why US Farmers and Intellectuals Want India to Adopt MSP
In this January 25, 2022, episode of ‘Farm Talks’, Indra Shekhar Singh interviews George Naylor, veteran organic farmers and former president of National Family Farm Coalition; American University professor Garrett Graddy Lovelace, co-founder of DisparitytoParity.org; and Raj Patel, research professor at the University of Texas-Austin. Beginning with the plight of state of US farmers, the episode ...
Division reigns among governments in UN Committee on World Food Security
By staff at the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSM) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS). This October 14, 2021, article highlighted concerns that the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit of ignoring the systemic implications of COVID-19 or climate change and their related causes.
Meet the coalition resisting the global push for land privatization in Brazil
By Marianna Olinger. Published October 1, 2021, at Waging Nonviolence. The movement to pressure TIAA to divest its farmland holdings is expanding to pressure our congressional allies to address the issue of farmers’ land rights and corporate land ownership in new ways.
The UN is holding a summit…Why are so many people upset about it?
By Lela Nargi. Posted on September 17, 2021, The Counter dove into the concerns raised by a range of organizations about the UN Food Systems Summit. “Farmers, ecologists, academics—and even some of the UN’s own food policy experts—say the organization is favoring corporate interests over human welfare.”
As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers
By Ellyn Ferguson. Originally posted August 5, 2021, this Roll Call article highlights NFFC’s demand for lawmakers to view farmland purchases by pension funds, corporations and wealthy individuals as an obstacle to new farmers for entering the industry or to small farmers for expanding their operations.
Deep Pockets in Farmland Investment Exacerbate Racial Inequities
By Humon Heidarian, originally posted July 18, 2021. This Food & Power article is one of a series examining the influence of farmland investments on equity and the future of food.
Could Price Parity, Supply Management Change the Game for BIPOC Farmers?
By Ray Levy Uyeda, originally posted April 14, 2021. This Civil Eats author looked in depth at the Disparity to Parity partners work to outline the harms of our industrial agricultural system, including the loss of Black-owned farmland.
Dairy farmers facing crisis as milk consumption, prices decline
By Brittany De Lea, originally posted February 6, 2020. This Yahoo article mentions National Family Farm Coalition data which suggests that farmers are paid $1.45 per gallon of milk which costs them $2 per gallon of milk to produce.
Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.