Key Issues & Actions - Community Alliance with Family Farmers

LABOR & IMMIGRATION

The hardworking backbone of our food system, we advocate for policies that value and empower our state’s many farmworkers.

CLIMATE CHANGE

From adaptation to sequestering carbon, we push for programs that recognize the vital role farmers can play in fighting this crisis.

DIRECT MARKETING

To ensure small farm viability and consumer choice, we fight to preserve and grow sale outlets for direct, local food purchasing.

WATER

In drought-stricken California, we advocate for sound policies that ensure farmers have access to water for generations to come.

FARM BILL

The single greatest piece of agricultural legislation, we give California family farmers a voice in crafting this massive federal bill.

COTTAGE FOOD

Assuring that small, local farmers can process and sell their value-added goods at a fair and appropriate scale.

FARMLAND CONSERVATION

As our population grows, we stand behind policies that protect our finite growing lands and encourage in-fill development.

COMPOST

We promote incentives for both on-farm and commercial composting to prevent waste and grow the availability of natural fertilizer.

FARM TO SCHOOL

With advocate for more locally-grown procurement of of healthy, fresh foods for our public schools and institutions.

FOOD SAFETY

With new federal oversight, we fight to make sure food safety rules remain reasonable, grounded and scale-appropriate.

LABOR & IMMIGRATION

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CLIMATE CHANGE

DIRECT MARKETING

FARM BILL

WATER

COTTAGE FOOD

FARMLAND CONSERVATION

The U.S. Farm Bill was passed in December 2018. It is currently being implemented. The next Farm Bill will be passed in 2023 and will have major implications on every element of our food and farming systems. CAFF is represented in Washington DC by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). NSAC devotes much of its effort to the Farm Bill and its implementation. We have formed a California Caucus of NSAC that now has 19 organizations. We try to coordinate our efforts in lobbying Congress.