Family Farm Action Alliance

Family Farm Action Alliance is a thought leader, policy developer, and network builder fighting for a bright economic future for our rural communities.

About Us

2020 in Review: How our strong research, policy development, and advocacy moved us toward a more sustainable, inclusive economy.

The Feed-Meat Complex: Big meat corporations have designed a system that allows them to pocket billions in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies.

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Family Farm Action Alliance is working to build a sustainable, inclusive economy in which everyone has the right to share in the prosperity they help build and that respects our land, natural resources, and neighbors around the world.

OUR WORK

Anti-Monopoly Reform

Our objective: evolve the food and agriculture system from a system controlled by a handful of monopoly corporations to an economically just, environmentally sustainable, and socially responsible system.

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Regenerative Agriculture

We bring family farm, animal welfare, conservation, and environmental advocates together to build a farm and food system that mitigates climate change while restoring the economic vitality of rural America.

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Resilient Local and Regional Food Systems

We develop robust policy reforms that dismantle the hyper-consolidated food and agriculture system and cultivate opportunities for real economic prosperity.

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Market Innovation Center

Our new Center will identify regenerative market opportunities, assist in building supply chains through value-based models, and assist with connecting the consumer to the supply.

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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.

Recent News

USDA to Take On Livestock Market Concentration Through Packers and Stockyards Act Rulemaking

Proposed changes to the Packers and Stockyards Act signal that USDA is heeding calls from farmers and policymakers to address market concentration.

Trailblazers and Game Changers: How Kansan Black Women Leaders Are Fighting for Family Farms

Our latest blog tells the history of Kansas’ prosperous Black farmers, and how the present-day fight to reclaim that legacy will benefit all family farmers — in Kansas and beyond.

Farm Action Comments on Biden’s EO on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad

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.