Putting Tribal Sovereignty
in Food Sovereignty
The Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) is proposing changes to Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) and the Food Distribution Program (FDPIR) on Indian Reservation regulations. USDA’s goal for these changes is to increase program access and parity. The Indigenous...
Proposed changes to the Indian Arts and Crafts Act could impact Indian Country producers, gatherers, food business owners, and more! Check out the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative's analysis of the proposed regulatory changes by clicking here. Download the...
In addition to discretionary spending reductions, the Fiscal Responsibility Act includes dozens of rescissions of unobligated funding from previously passed legislation such as the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, and...
FSA County Committee and Local Administrative Areas - Tribal Jurisdiction Breakdown The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) supports farms and farming communities with disaster relief, conservation programs, commodity price guarantee programs,...
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....
First Nations Development Institute collaborated with the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative (IFAI) at the University of Arkansas to create a resource publication to provide fundamental information on meat supply chains (including related policies,...
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. ...