Between 2010 and 2020, more than two-thirds of U.S. rural communities experienced sustained population loss, driven by outmigration, declining birth rates, and corporate land and resource grabs that prioritize profit over community needs. This decline fuels a vicious cycle: as young people leave, rural areas lose workforce, businesses, services, and tax revenue, further eroding schools…
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The widespread and disastrous impacts of climate change are already here, wreaking havoc on our urban and rural communities and farmers. Most disaster policy is recovery focused but there…
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While the U.S. legacy of historic and systemic discrimination against Black Americans is well-known in housing, education, healthcare, and employment, the ways in which Black farmers have been discriminated…
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In the last year, I have lived through four unprecedented climate-related crises in my community – all of which were in the last nine months, on top of the…
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In a historic win for farmworkers in Colorado and nationally, SB 87, the Farmworkers’ Bill of Rights passed both chambers of the Colorado legislature just days before the end…
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