working together for a just food and farm policy

Policy Research Center

“A Time to Change: Report of The Assessment Conversations Team” (The ACT Report) was released on September 22, 2010.  This 156 page report by the Rural Coalition and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives compiles finding by the hundreds of participants in the 5 year USDA-Community Based Organization Partners process, and reviews the status of implementation of the 2008 Farm Bill by USDA through January 2009.  Over 200 recommendations on actions to improve equity in agriculture are included.  Click here to download a PDF version of this document.

The Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural is an alliance of farmers, farmworkers, indigenous, migrant and working people from the United States,
Mexico, Canada and beyond working together toward a new society that values unity, hope, people and the land.