The Farm Bill Grassroots Capacity Building Project was launched as a collaboration between National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, RAFI-USA, and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation, with generous grant support from the Waverley Street Foundation and Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation (PACT). While having a focus on advancing agricultural policies that address the climate crisis and racial disparities, […]
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) believes that paths to climate resilience come from farmers and land stewards within communities on the frontlines of climate change. That’s why we’re excited to launch our new report This is Climate Resilience: Frontline Organizations Creating Climate-Resilient Futures for Food Production. RAF invites the philanthropic community to join us in directing […]
As light returns with the winter solstice, we are excited to present the recipients of the 2023 Restorying Regenerative Agriculture awards! Through work ranging from buffalo reintroduction, land and seed rematriation, and traditional farming through collective governance, the Restorying Awardees represent a broad range of approaches that organizations are utilizing to heal their lands, soils, […]
The Regenerative Agriculture Foundation awarded a handful of small organizations a $12,000 grant each in 2022 to support them in putting together a grant application for USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding. Four of those organizations were successful and will receive up to $48 million in USDA funds! The grant funding is now being distributed […]
RAF is excited to again support organizations in their work to build on or expand grassroots organizing and policy development efforts underway to shape the 2023 Farm bill. Housed at the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation (RAF) and managed by members of an advisory committee including National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), HEAL Food Alliance, Rural Coalition, and […]
RAF Associate Director Ahna Kruzic traveled to Washington DC in early March to join hundreds of farmers and ranchers from across the United States to advocate for more resiliency in our food system. As climate change induces more severe weather events like floods and droughts, farms that can withstand these shocks will be more important […]
U.S. Senator Tina Smith hosted a kitchen table discussion / listening session with Minnesota Black, Indigenous, and Farmers of Color on April 5 at The Good Acre, a local nonprofit that supports sustainable food production. The topic was the upcoming farm bill, in particular access to land, capital, and resources. Farming is a capital-intensive business […]
The Regenerative Agriculture Foundation has launched a peer-led farm bill rapid response fund focused on supporting grassroots farm bill advocacy efforts. With support from the Waverley Street Foundation and in partnership with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and RAFI-USA, we launched a peer-led farm bill rapid response fund focused on supporting grassroots farm bill […]
For years, RAA founding board president Reginaldo Haslett Marroquin has watched regenerative agriculture practitioners experiment with techniques that were widely used on his Native landscape, the highlands of Western Guatemala. Regi recognized that while not called regenerative agriculture, indigenous cultures across the world had developed techniques that advance regenerative agriculture goals such as building soil, […]