The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts
Our special report provides the latest updated data on the state of concentration in the agrifood system, and outlines what happens when a few hands control the way billions of consumers, farmers, and farmworkers work and eat. It also includes bold proposals for decentralizing our agrifood system to move power out of the control of just a few.
Family Farm Action Alliance released a comprehensive toolkit for the 117th Congress to tackle the dangerous levels of consolidation in today’s food system.
In the face of humbling challenges, we learned new ways to work, connect with our supporters and stakeholders, and keep policymakers engaged in food system reform.
Family Farm Action Alliance recommends broader checkoff reforms can be implemented that truly benefit farmers and ranchers: a return to a voluntary point of sale checkoff to allow farmers, ranchers and producers to opt into checkoff payments as they could when the programs were first established.