Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal is a bipartisan national coalition of rural and urban farmers and ranchers, and organizations that represent farmers and ranchers. Coalition members share a commitment and work together to advance food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agroecological food production and land-management practices.
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OVERVIEW
The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal national coalition views the Green New Deal not as a partisan political initiative, but as a framework for transformational policy reform, across all sectors of the U.S. food and farming system.
The coalition supports policy reforms that expand economic opportunities for farmers and ranchers whose practices and businesses:
- combat climate change by reducing emissions and drawing down and sequestering carbon
- contribute to a clean environment and restore natural habitats
- provide access to locally produced, contaminant-free, nutrient-dense food
- help build and support resilient local and regional food systems and economies
- provide safe working conditions and living wages for farm workers
The coalition is committed to working with Congress to ensure that farmers and ranchers have a seat at the table when it comes to defining and finalizing the specific policies and programs that will form the basis for achieving the goals outlined in the Green New Deal Resolution.
Sometimes the general public forgets that farm and ranch operations are businesses, and that farmers & Ranchers don’t operate in a vacuum. They are an integral part of their local business communities. If you’re a farmer or rancher and you’d like to be part of the larger movement for better policies for independent business owners, sign here to join the American Sustainable Business Council’s Businesses for the Green New Deal coalition.
Sign here to join the ASBC’s Businesses for the Green New Deal
One hundred years ago, English-born Catherine and Thomas Naylor, bought the farm we farm today in Greene County, Iowa. They built our house we live in that year, too, when prosperity from World War I markets gave them the courage to go in debt for the farm and house.
We have come into farming at a terrible time. As I have written about before […]
A millennial perspective on why the way we farm and how we consume food must be part of the conversation when it comes to the climate crisis.