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Europe Protests Leave Small Farmers Disappointed
Lancaster Farming recently reported on our recent webinar, where we heard first-hand from French and Spanish farmers about the roots of their discontent. This winter’s European farmer protests weren’t what they seemed to be. To Americans, the protests might have looked like farmers uniting around common hardships — or as angry farmers indulging in fringe politics. But small-scale European farmers ...
James Beard Recognizes Niaz Dorry and the Fight Against Corporate Takeover of Sea and Land Food Systems
Download the Press Release James Beard Recognizes Niaz Dorry and the Fight Against Corporate Takeover of Sea and Land Food Systems With her James Beard award, she invites chefs to challenge factory farms at sea and on land. CHICAGO, IL — When Niaz Dorry became coordinating director of the North American Marine Alliance (NAMA) in 2008, one of ...
The Dairy Board has helped increase Americans’ consumption of dairy – but at what cost?
NFFC’s senior policy analyst, Antonio Tovar, was in the news recently. He discussed our dairy reform proposal for a Grist article about the national Dairy Board. The board is overseen by the USDA and partly funded by farmers through ‘checkoff’ programs. Its goal is to increase demand for dairy through promotion and marketing. H. Claire ...
NFFC And NAMA Director Niaz Dorry Recognized With James Beard Foundation Leadership Award
The North American Marine Alliance (NAMA) and National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) are pleased to announce that Niaz Dorry, Director of both organizations, has been recognized as a 2024 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award recipient in the Policy Advocacy category. Niaz has played a pivotal role in grassroots movement-building and steering federal legislation towards recognizing and ...
We must urge elected officials to support the Fair Credit for Farmers Act
Todd Leak from Dakota Resource Council wrote a letter to the editor of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, calling for the passage of our marker bill, the Fair Credit for Farmers Act, which “directly addresses many of the barriers farmers face as they attempt to access credit at the Farm Service Agency.” Read the full opinion on InForum.com.
Farm Aid adds its voice to food and farm policy
A recent article from Food Safety News reports on Farm Aid’s endorsement of the Fair Credit for Farmers Act, one of the marker bills in our Farm Bill platform. Farm Aid’s policy and advocacy manager, Hannah Tremblay, is quoted in the article: The Fair Credit for Farmers Act makes important reforms to FSA, protecting farmers and making ...
Pesticide-drift concerns still hang over ag industry
Glenn Pulse is an organic farmer in South Dakota and a member of our coalition through Dakota Rural Action. He recently spoke to Public News Service about the environmental impacts of dicamba weed-killers. Glenn Pulse, co-owner of an organic farm in Vermillion, said a 2017 drift incident had a big impact on his operation. “Our entire farm was ...
Lawmakers Consider Bill Restricting US Corporate Ownership of America’s Farmland
Hoosier Ag Today cited our coalition in a new article about corporate farmland grabs. Fran Miller from our partner, the Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, was interviewed about our policy proposal, the Farmland for Farmers Act. The article reports that the bill would “restrict corporations and multi-layered subsidiaries, pension funds, and investment ...
Corporate land grabs are “decimating rural communities”
AgNet West recently spoke to Fran Miller, one of policy our partners at the Vermont Law & Graduate School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. She spoke about the negative impacts of corporate investment in farmland, as well as our proposed solution, the Farmland for Farmers Act. Fran says about corporate land grabbing, “It’s decimating rural ...
Investors see big returns on farmland — are they pricing out farmers?
We recently appeared in a News Nation article about the spike in farmland acquisitions by private investors. Our policy proposal, the Farmland for Farmers Act, would protect farmland from corporation land grabs and speculation. Jordan Treakle from the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) is concerned about the deep-pocketed investors. He worries they’ll price out smaller farmers and further consolidate the ...
Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.