National Family Farm Coalition

Submitted June 15, 2022 with Farmworker Association of Florida, Food Chain Workers Alliance, HEAL Food Alliance, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Re: Competition and the Intellectual Property System: Seeds and Other Agricultural Inputs. Docket number AMS-AMS-22-0025

February 24, 2022 – As Disparity to Parity essayist Doug Gurrian-Sherman eloquently wrote: The historical and largely white incrementalist environmental movement, including its agricultural manifestations, has failed to adequately protect the environment, let alone the rights and wellbeing of Black, …

The Disparity to Parity project has explored issues around agriculture and fairness in the United States, but we have always seen these issues in the broader international context of human rights, globalization and social movements that extend beyond national borders. …

From a burgeoning youth food justice movement to a long-delayed recognition of and respect for essential workers to a new milk pricing proposal for dairy farmers, a ‘back to life’ movement is afoot to build a food system that is …

The divisions between rich and poor, rural and urban, BIPOC and White, landed and landless, Main Street and Wall Street look as wide today in the U.S. as they have ever been. To understand the depths, causes and remedies of …

Earth care requires wise agricultural and food policies that mandate fair prices and wages and update supply management to build a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system. In short, moving from Disparity to Parity.

Featuring farmer and producer advocate voices from across the food system, this webinar identified key pitfalls of carbon trading schemes and highlight the importance of existing agricultural conservation programs for reducing emissions and supporting family-scale agriculture.

This new video by NFFC and ActionAid USA features leaders from Black farmer and migrant farmworker communities describing the impacts of land theft – losing their home, livelihood, and the ability to maintain and build family wealth. Everyone deserves the …

One way to make our food and agriculture system work is to implement policies based on parity – policies that would set a living wage for farmers and use supply management as a tool to rein in overproduction, protect the …

NFFC board president Jim Goodman outlines what farmers need at the Farmers Bill of Rights Rally in Iowa in March 2019. The day before, Jim and his wife, Rebecca, signed the papers selling the organic dairy farm that had been …

Petition for review of the EPA’s 2018 decision to continue new use registrations of the pesticide dicamba on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybean.

Meet Jim Goodman, president of the National Family Farm Coalition. He and his wife, Rebecca, ran a 45-cow organic dairy and direct market beef farm in southwest Wisconsin for 40 years, and still found time to get into “good trouble”.