Putting Tribal Sovereignty
in Food Sovereignty
In late 2021 through the end of 2022, members of the Native Farm Bill Coalition (NFBC) traveled across the United States to facilitate roundtables and meet with Tribal leaders, agriculture producers, and nutrition experts ahead of the renewal of the Farm Bill. As the...
After a couple of tumultuous months, the Farm Bill is officially extended. In mid-November, just before Congress left town for the holiday break, the House and Senate agreed to a one-year extension of the current Farm Bill with a new expiration date of Sept. 30,...
As a founding organization and official research partner for the Native Farm Bill Coalition, the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative authored a report titled Gaining Ground: A Report on the 2018 Farm Bill Successes for Indian Country and Opportunities for 2023....
In December 2018, the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative published Optimizing Distribution Center Location and Delivery Schemes for the USDA’s Food DistributionProgram on Indian Reservations (FDPIR). Download the resource below.
Building Indian Country’s Future through Food, agriCulture, inFrastruCture, and economic development in the 2018 Farm Bill By Janie Simms Hipp, Colby D. Duren, & Erin Parker from the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative Download below....
As one of the founding organizations and official research partner of the Native Farm Bill Coalition, the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative published Regaining Our Future: An Assessment of Risks and Opportunities for Native Communities in the 2018 Farm Bill. ...