Search Results for: Heal Farm Bill

Ten Bills to Create Dignity and Safe Working Conditions for Food and Farm Workers

By Nichelle Harriott, Policy Director, HEAL Food Alliance This piece serves as the second blog of the series “Agricultural Workers, Essential but Excluded,” in partnership with Union of Concerned Scientists  Food and farm workers touch every part of our food system: they plant and harvest crops, process meat and poultry, conduct food safety inspections, stock […]
1 year ago

Farmers, Food and Farm Groups Oppose Partisan Efforts to Weaken New Federal Rule Addressing Discrimination in Agricultural Lending

NATIONAL (May 15, 2024) – Today, 130 organizations including the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Rural Coalition, the Center for Responsible Lending, and Self-Help, a national CDFI, sent a letter to Congress opposing multiple targeted efforts by Republican lawmakers to weaken, overturn, and provide exemptions to Rule […]
2 years ago

Equity Must be Integral to USDA Programs: HEAL’s Takeaways From the USDA Equity Commission’s Final Report

*Important update as of 1/24/2024* After decades of discriminatory practices that furthered inequities between white farmers and BIPOC farmers and years of pressure from farmers, organizers, and advocates across the country, the USDA brought on an equity commission that over the course of two years developed a comprehensive set of recommendations to improve outcomes for […]
2 years ago

HEAL Statement on USDA Equity Commission’s Final Report

February 26, 2024: Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Equity Commission issued its final report of recommendations for the USDA to “address historic and current discrimination and promote equity.” The Commission’s report provides the USDA and Congress with a guide to righting past wrongs and ensuring it provides programs and services equitably to […]
2 years ago

Sovereignty & Resilience: HEAL’s Winter Update

Welcome to the HEAL Food Alliance quarterly newsletter! To stay up to date on what’s happening in the food and farm justice movement, subscribe now » Everywhere we look this winter, we see beautiful acts of resistance, community building and care. At HEAL we recognize that our sovereignty and liberation is interconnected. It will take […]
2 years ago

Dysfunctional Congress Left American Farm Workers in Limbo

*note: This op-ed was originally published in the the Opinion section of the Messenger on October 18, 2023 Dysfunctional Congress Left American Farm Workers in Limbo By Jose Oliva and Sophie Ackoff Although Congress was able to make a deal this weekend and avoid a government shutdown, the 21.5 million people working in the food […]
2 years ago