BIPOC Producers
Why the CFPB Matters for Farmers and Rural Communities (2025)
Rural Communities Lose Critical Financial Protections
Providing Opportunities for All Producers, a HEAL Farm Bill Backgrounder
BIPOC have faced enormous barriers in accessing USDA programs and services.
Opportunity for All Producers: Explainer
Our food is grown and gathered by a variety of people in a variety of ways.
Providing Opportunities for All Producers
Prioritizing funding for programs to supporting BIPOC producers
American Indian Homelands: Matters of Truth, Honor and Dignity Immemorial (2023)
Video highlighting community-led solutions for food system change.
Ten Ways To Save Your Land (2022)
Guide to protecting family farmland and preventing land loss.
Investing in next-gen farmers will create resilient food systems (2022)
Supporting new farmers strengthens resilient food systems.
The Dangerous Economics of Racial Resentment During World War II (2022)
How racism and economics fueled Japanese American internment.
Mapping Covid-19 Outbreaks in the Food System
Mapping COVID-19 outbreaks in meatpacking and food processing plants.
Gather (2020)
Beautiful documentary film on Indigenous food sovereignty
Leveling the Fields: Opportunities for Black People, Indigenous People, and Other People of Color, Union of Concerned Scientists and HEAL Food Alliance, 2020
Farming builds community wealth and resilience to climate challenges
An Open Letter from BIPOC Leaders in Food & Agriculture to Food Systems Funders (2020)
Food funders must center racial equity and justice in their work.
When We Needed It to Be, Food Was a Weapon (2020)
Black Panther Party fed a movement, its impact is ongoing.
A Short History of Black Cooperatives in America (2020)
History of Black cooperatives building economic power and resilience.
With these Hands (2020)
Black Stories of Collectivism, Rural Revivalism and Healing from SAAFON
Remaking the Economy in Indian Country (2019)
Exploring economic sovereignty and development in Indigenous communities.
Black Lands Matter: The Movement to Transform Heirs’ Property Laws (2019)
Land ownership reforms help protect Black family farmland.
The Great Land Robbery (2019)
The history of land theft and broken promises in America.
NEFOC Land Trust Black/Indigenous PoC Reparations & Reconciliation Wealth Redistribution Map
Exploring land reparations and community land stewardship efforts.
NSAC Farm Bill Drilldown: Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers
Farm Bill programs help new farmers enter agriculture.
A Guide to Tribal Community Co-operative Development (2018)
Guide to creating and supporting Tribal cooperative enterprises.
50 State Food System Scorecard (2018)
State-by-state assessment of food system sustainability and equity.
Land Loss Trends Among Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers in the Black Belt Region (2018)
Examining land loss trends among socially disadvantaged farmers.
HEAL Platform for Real Food (English)
This Platform outlines our principles and policy priorities
HEAL Platform for Real Food (Spanish)
This Platform outlines our principles and policy priorities
Growing Economies Policy Brief (2016)
How local food systems contribute to economic growth and jobs.
Food justice: a vision deeper than the problem (2015)
Video examining equity, food access, and grassroots organizing.
Native land CA map
Interactive map showing Indigenous territories and lands.
The Invasion of America (2015)
Examining the dispossession of Indigenous lands across history.
The Invasion of America Interactive Map
Map visualizing food access, agriculture, and community resources.
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice (2014)
History and impact of cooperative farming in America.
Diné Food Sovereignty: A Report on the Navajo Nation Food System and the Case to Rebuild a Self-Sufficient Food System for the Diné People (2014)
Report exploring Indigenous food sovereignty and self-determination.
The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres (2014)
Video highlighting cooperative economics and community-led solutions.