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NFFC Farm and Food Policy
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| NFFC is committed to improving the economic opportunity of our nation's rural farmers and communities. This requires effective work in domestic and international trade policy to ensure the right and responsibility of nations to make their own decisions about how to develop and protect the capacity to grow food, sustain the livelihood of food producers, and feed the people in its own borders. | |||||||||||||||
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| The Farm
and Food Policy Task Force addresses specific domestic policy proposals,
and deals with national and international food security and food sovereignty
issues. The billions currently spent on taxpayer-financed farm programs
and emergency payments create a false impression that farmers receive
a sufficient income. In fact, those billions, while paid to farmers act
as subsidies to livestock factories, processors, and exporters that buy
commodities at low prices. Taxpayers unknowingly fund the demise of the
nation's diversified family farms.
NFFC challenges the ideology of expanding production and exports. NFFC promotes a sustainable federal farm policy that works for family farmers through a system of price supports (not income supports), food security reserves, conservation programs, open competitive markets, and the development of new consumer-farmer market options. NFFC seizes important opportunities to dispel the myths that support current farm policy and offer alternative effective solutions. Activities include grassroots legislative campaigns, hearings, and coalition-building. In fall 2002, a NFFC Dairy Subcommittee formed as part of the Farm and Food Policy Task Force to address the growing crisis in the dairy sector. |
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Implement NFFC campaign(s) to change current federal farm policy. • Amplify campaigns prioritized by member organizations. • Collaborate with allied organizations to promote national/international policy priorities. |
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2. Build support for our comprehensive policy proposal, the Food from Family Farms Act (FFFA) (NFFC-authored alternative Farm Bill), among farmers, politicians, consumers, environmentalists, and other constituencies. 3. Continue to develop materials to illustrate how corporate agribusiness benefits from the current farm policy and how it harms family farmers, consumers, and the environment. 4. Continue to develop presentations on alternative farm and trade policy and present them to a wide spectrum of audiences, broadening support for a new farm/food/trade policy agenda. 5. Support efforts to eliminate the pork, beef, dairy and other check-off programs, and to combat factory livestock confinement operations. 6. Link domestic policy with international focus on opposing multi-national agribusiness corporations. |
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| NFFC is committed to improving the economic opportunity of our nation's rural farmers and communities. This requires effective work in domestic and international trade policy to ensure the right and responsibility of nations to make their own decisions about how to develop and protect the capacity to grow food, sustain the livelihood of food producers, and feed the people in its own borders. | |||||||||||||||
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nffc@nffc.net ph (202) 543-5675 (c) 2008 National Family Farm Coalition |
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