You have until March 31, 2021 to submit your comment to the USDA (AMS) regarding how the $1.5 billion authorized in Dec. 2020 will be implemented. Help protect and grow local food systems. Your voice matters.
Margaret Krome-Lukens
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Are you a farmer, farmworker, or farmers market manager? Do you run a food pantry, food hub, or small processing facility? USDA needs to hear from you!
Learn about RAFI-USA’s 2021 policy priorities. For today’s #TakeActionTuesday, please make sure you are signed up to receive Action Alerts. Our easy-to-use platform allows you to contact your legislators on matters of importance to farmers and farm communities.
RAFI-USA supports the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act as well as the Justice for Black Farmers Act, and we encourage members of Congress to likewise support these important steps towards justice for farmers of color.
With the 2020 election nearing, the U.S. is in danger of experiencing political violence, which is sadly nothing new for our country. In this blog, we discuss how faith leaders and communities can work together to take concrete, proactive steps to both prevent and if necessary respond, to political violence.
We are proud to share this new report in which Dr. Fatimah Salleh, interviewer and lead author, lifts up the words of eleven people of color who serve on the boards of predominantly white agricultural and environmental nonprofits, highlighting the dynamics, rewards, and challenges that they have experienced in that role.
Join us September 14 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. for a Community Conversation on the connections between land and the historic struggle for civil rights and liberation by Black farmers, and the struggle against voter suppression today.
Join RAFI-USA and Rural Forward NC online on July 14, 2020 from 6-8pm for a Community Conversation with Pastor Anthony Gibson and Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson of Peletah Ministries.
RAFI-USA endorses the Relief for America’s Small Farmers Act to provide debt relief to small family farms. The most rapid way to ease financial pressures on farmers who are most at risk is forgiveness of USDA direct loan debt.