The following organizations have been connected to - and inspiration for - our work to Point the Farm Bill Toward Racial Justice. Please reach out to farmbillfairness@gmail.com to share the names of additional organizations you’d like to see included in an expanded directory of organizations who are working at the intersections of race, agriculture, food, and climate.
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
In 1991, after several years of organizing - community, electoral, and educational campaigns - campesina organizations in the Coachella Valley committed to developing a national network of farmworker women at their third campesina local conference.
First, they founded Líderes Campesinas, the first farmworker women organization in the country. Líderes organized for the implementation of domestic violence prevention programs, workplace protections and more, fundamentally changing the terrain of organizing and working conditions for farmworker women in California.
ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. These include: African farmers’ organizations, African NGO networks, specialist African NGOs, consumer movements in Africa, international organizations which support the stance of AFSA, and individuals. Its members represent smallholder farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples; faith based institutions, and environmentalists from across Africa. It is a network of networks and currently with 30 active members.
Berkeley Food Institute
In 2011, a working group of UC Berkeley faculty, postdocs, and students formed the Center for Diversified Farming Systems (CDFS).
Today, this interdisciplinary team of researchers explores topics like soil health, pollination, agriculture technology, and ecologically-based farming practices — with the overarching question: How can biological, economic, and cultural diversity at the farm level affect the sustainability, resilience, health, and equity of food production?
Federation of southern cooperatives land assistance fun
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund (the Federation) is a 58-year-old, non-profit cooperative association of Black farmers, landowners, cooperatives.
The Federation was born out of the Civil Rights movement and exists to save Black-owned farms and land.
Freedmen Heirs Foundation
A Non-Profit Organization dedicated to the promise of successful Black farms.
HEAL Food Alliance
The HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance was born out of the knowledge that no single individual, organization, or sector can transform systems in isolation.
HEAL Food Alliance believes that true transformation requires diverse skills, roles, and resources— and, it requires organizing together for real change.
intertribal agriculture council
Founded in 1987, the Intertribal Agriculture Council's (IAC) mission is to pursue and promote the conservation, development, and use of the agricultural resources of the Native American Indian and Native Alaskan Tribes. As a member organization, IAC provides a forum for Tribes and individual producers to elevate issues relevant to improving the management of Indian agricultural resources and promoting change in federal and Tribal policies. Central to IAC's mission is increasing productivity with Tribal agricultural resources, achieved through various initiatives focused on producer training and development, market expansion, financial risk reduction, water rights protection, and the preservation and growth of trust lands.
National Black Food and Justice Alliance
The National Black Food and Justice Alliance represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty.
National Family Farm Coalition
National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) was founded in 1986, at the height of the 1980s farm crisis, to be a voice for farmers in Washington, DC.
Today, they are the only national coalition representing grassroots farm, ranch, and fishing organizations in the nation’s capital. Through their 30 member groups, they represent in 42 states. Their members are fighting for farmer rights, fair prices, clean air and water, strong local economies, the right to sell and buy locally-grown and -processed food, the right to be free from corporate domination, the right to live in vibrant and healthy rural communities, and much more.
Rural Advancement foundation International (RAFI)
Since their founding in 1990, RAFI has recognized that our food system is deeply inequitable, where rural communities — their land, animals, and people — are exploited to benefit corporate power structures. Working across agricultural sectors and collaboratively through coalitions, RAFI combines on–the-ground practical services and policy advocacy to ensure farmers have access to the tools they need to make the right choices for their farms and families as well as for their communities and the environment.
RAFI takes a whole system approach to change through their integrated program areas: Challenging Corporate Power, Come to the Table, Expanding Farmers Market Access, Farm Advocacy, Farmers of Color of Network, Just Foods, and policy work.
Rural Coalition // Coalicíon Rural
Founded in 1978, Rural Coalition is an alliance of family farms, small scale farms, and farm workers working together toward a new society that values unity, hope, people, and the land.
Soul Fire Farm
Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm and training center dedicated to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.
With deep reverence for the Earth and wisdom of ancestors, Soul Fire Farm practices regenerative agroecology, raise and distribute life-giving food, equip the rising generation of BIPOC farmers, and mobilize communities to work toward food and land sovereignty.
Vermont Law Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) is a research-based institution housed at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Alongside students, they produce original scholarly research in the field of food and agriculture law and policy to serve the broadest range of food system stakeholders.
With local, regional, national, and international partners, CAFS addresses food system challenges related to food and nutrition security and affordability, farmland access, food system workers, farm viability, local economies, and public health, among others. CAFS works closely with its partners to provide legal services and develop resources that respond to their needs. Through CAFS’ Food and Agriculture Clinic and Research Assistant program, Vermont Law and Graduate School students work directly on projects alongside partners nationwide, engaging in innovative work that spans the food system.
Ujaama
Ujaama Inc.’s mission is to develop effective leadership in the African American community. They are committed to educating youth about their culture and true history.
Instilling academic, social and financial excellence into the lives of Black Kings & Queens to be.