Farm and Food Groups Say Bayer-Monsanto Merger Will Create Vegetable Seed Monopoly
Two Dozen Organizations Call on Justice Department to Block Proposed Merger August 2, 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 24 farm, consumer and rural advocacy organizations urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the proposed merger between Bayer AG and Monsanto Corporation. In a letter sent to DOJ today the groups detailed the potential anticompetitive effects ...
National Family Farm Coalition: Renegotiating NAFTA Not a Solution
Rural America Cannot Export (or Import) Its Way Out of Financial Ruin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2017 Contact: Quinton Robinson, 202-543-5675 QuintonNRobinson@nffc.net Washington, DC – The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) asserts that the Trump Administration’s push to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will not solve the key issues currently devastating rural America. The low prices ...
Pro Ag Holds Press Conference in Tunkhannock
June 5, 2017 At a press conference held at the Perkins Restaurant in Tunkhannock, Arden Tewksbury, Manager of Progressive Agriculture Organization (Pro-Ag) announced that several farm organizations, milk cooperatives, and county commissioners have petitioned the USDA in Washington DC asking for a national milk hearing for all dairy farmers. The petition clearly asks the Department of ...
Replace NAFTA – Return Community Control Over Food and Farms
May 18, 2017 The independent family farming, ranching and fishing members of the National Family Farm Coalition have watched their incomes drop, their markets close and their communities deteriorate since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passed in 1993. It is time for a new and fair trade agreement that supports independent farmers and fishermen ...
TIAA Must Stop Funding Deforestation and Land Grabs
Coalition of environmental, human rights, and farm and farm worker groups will march to TIAA’s NYC office to deliver petitions demanding the company stop funding divest from destructive palm oil companies and land grabbing. April 14, 2017 NEW YORK, NY – On Thursday, April 20, a coalition of environmental, human rights and farm organizations as well as ...
Farm and Food Groups Oppose Agricultural Mega Mergers
Call on new DOJ leader to put farmer, consumer, worker interests above corporations – Kate Colwell WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 325 farming, beekeeping, farmworker, religious, food safety, and conservation advocacy groups today urged the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation into the proposed mergers of the world’s largest agrochemical and seed companies. Groups urged ...
Kathy Ozer – A Fighter for Family Farmers With Integrity, Knowledge and Commitment passed away
A Fighter for Family Farmers With Integrity, Knowledge and Commitment WASHINGTON, January 27, 2017 Almost everyone in the country involved with family farmer issues knew Kathy Ozer. We also knew that she had been sick for a while and thought she was getting better. On January 22, the cancer – non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – finally took her from us. ...
Joint NFFC-RC-NLFRTA Release on TPP’s Demise
For more information contact: Katherine Ozer, Executive Director, National Family Farm Coalition, 202-421-4544, kozer@nffc.net; Lorette Picciano, Executive Director, Rural Coalition, 202-628-7161, lpicciano@ruralco.org; Rudy Arredondo, President, National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association, 202-628-1440, latinofarmers@live.com November 15, 2016 Statement on Behalf of National Family Farm Coalition, Rural Coalition and National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association on the ...
USFSA Holds Learning Call on People’s Agrarian Reform
On May 23, 2016, the Resource Reform work team of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance held a learning call on People’s Agrarian Reform based on the principles outlined by La Via Campesina (http://bit.ly/1R9ospB) at their April 2016 International Conference of Agrarian Reform. Speaking were Blain Snipstal (Black Dirt Farm Collective, SAFFON and Rural Coalition), Dena ...
Press Statement on the Assassination of Berta Cáceres, Call to Action
March 9, 2016 Contacts: Saulo Araujo, WhyHunger – (617)735-5899 Stephen Bartlett, Agricultural Missions – (502)415-1080 Lisa Griffith, National Family Farm Coalition – (773)319-5838 Carol Schachet, Grassroots International – (617)524-1400 or (617)628-3455 Thursday March 3, 2016, at 1am, Berta Cáceres, a Lenca Indigenous woman and an internationally recognized leader, was assassinated in her home. Berta was supposed to be under special protection ...
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