What We Have Accomplished

For the past 30 years, our coalition has served as a critical advocacy voice of African-American, American Indian, Asian-American, Euro-American, Latino and women farmers and ranchers, farmworkers and rural communities in the US and campesino and indigenous communities in Mexico. With our members and allies, we have worked to implement our founding principles of democratic participation and bringing justice and equity to food and farm policy for rural people.

Rural Coalition has ... 

• Built and maintained a true grassroots organization with an always diverse, multicultural and democratically elected Board of Directors
• Championed policies to support small-scale producers, protect the rights of socially disadvantaged producers and farmworkers and assure equitable access and distribution of resources to all in the farm and food sector, including all federal  (USDA) farm programs and resources.
• Worked for fair trade policy and in opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement and other trade pacts.
• Supported active participation by our members in international negotiations and gatherings.
• As a member of Via Campesina, promoted food sovereignty and the international solidarity of rural people
• Provided a forum and home base for diverse communities to collaborate development of shared positions on critical and contentious issues such as immigration.
• Supported in all things care of the earth