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.
While the comment addressed key issues identified by USDA, it went further to make policy recommendations that would center farmers and ranchers as a part of the climate solution while detailing the safeguards needed to deter the continued concentration of the food system.
Democratizing our food system is a heavy lift, but in just four months, the Farm Action team has made substantial progress towards actualizing this vision. Join us to pause and reflect on the progress of the policies and people we have pushed for, and all that we have to look forward to.
Stacked with sweeping provisions centering voluntary incentives for conservation, renewable energy, and local food system programs, Family Farm Action Alliance is optimistic that if enacted, this legislation would offer both immediate and long-term relief to farmers struggling to navigate a brittle, consolidated food system in a changing climate.