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COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020 Letter to Congress

To download the letter and read the list of 202 signatures, please click here.    Dear Member of Congress:  

COVID-19 aid offers little for farmers selling locally

Late on Friday, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), a $19 billion payout that includes cash for farmers and ranchers and purchases food for redistribution to food banks.

Uprooting the farm crisis in times of COVID-19

The COVID-19 emergency exposes numerous catastrophic failures in our economies and societies.

Lettre ouverte aux ministères du commerce et à l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC)

Chers membres de l'Organisation Mondiale du Commerce, 

Carta abierta a los ministerios de comercio y la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC)

Estimados miembros de la Organización Mundial del Comercio: 

An Open Letter to Trade Ministries and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Dear World Trade Organization Members,  

Meat Plant Closings Show Fragility of “Get Big” System, Say Midwest Family Farm Groups

Global players forced small meatpacking plants out, farmers and workers pay the price

NSAC Joins With More Than 750 Organizations Calling on USDA to Provide Direct Aid to Farmers Who Rely on Local and Regional Markets

Washington, DC, April 9, 2020 – Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and more than 750 farm and food system organizations from all across the country joined their voices in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue calling on the U.S.

USDA COVID-19 relief: Big Ag bigger and family farms forced out?

Why is there $9.5 billion for livestock producers in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) signed by President Donald Trump on March 27?

Midwest Family Farm Groups Want Aid to Get to People, Not Global Agribusiness

Family farm based organizations in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and South Dakota sent a letter to Congress today calling for strong oversight of the recently passed COVID-19 aid package to ensure the U.S.