Through the Green New Deal, farmers are calling for a just transition to a system that puts power back in the hands of the people and communities growing food.

RSVP to learn more on Wednesday, April 24 at 2PM ET.

Globally, food and agriculture are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the world’s cars, trucks, planes, and trains combined. Much of the sector’s climate change contributions come from industrial agriculture’s reliance on fossil fuel-based chemicals. Farmers have few options as profits leave rural America and collect in corporate boardrooms instead. Farm incomes are in freefall, farms are getting ever-larger, and just a few companies control the markets for grain, meat, seeds, inputs, and many other products.

The Green New Deal calls for zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 “through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers.” The non-binding resolution calls for working with farmers and ranchers and addressing depopulated rural communities. Agriculture has tremendous potential to sequester carbon and mitigate the impacts of climate change – and a truly just transition to these methods could revitalize farms and rural communities. We must ensure that future binding Green New Deal lawmaking centers these solutions posed by farmers and their communities.

Join National Family Farm Coalition and Pesticide Action Network on Wednesday, April 24 at 2PM ET for an online forum featuring farmers’ solutions. Participants can RSVP for the online forum, and will be sent access details.

Panelists include:

• Patti Naylor (Iowa organic farmer, Family Farm Defenders & National Family Farm Coalition)
• Dr. Gail Myers (Farms to Grow, Inc., National Black Food & Justice Alliance member)
• Carl Wassilie (farmer and fisherman, Alaska’s Big Village Network, Family Farm Defenders)
• Anna Hankins (eastern Iowa beginning farmer and farm advocate)
• Ahna Kruzic (moderator, Pesticide Action Network)

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