Participating Organizations

Participating organizations are those that have had significant input into the Farm and Food Policy Project process, including the devotion of staff time, resources, and ideas. Participants are not necessarily endorsers of the Project's recommendations. For a list of organizations endorsing a statement on the directional change of America's farm and food system go here.

Coordinating Council

  • Craig Cox, Soil and Water Conservation Society (IA)
  • Jimmy Daukas, American Farmland Trust (DC)

  • Scott Faber, Environmental Defense (DC)

  • Thomas Forster, Community Food Security Coalition (DC)

  • Edmund Gomez, New Mexico State University (NM)

  • Antonio Gonzalez, William C. Velasquez Institute (TX)

  • Ferd Hoefner, Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (DC)

  • Savi Horne, Land Loss Protection Project (NC)

  • Ed Cooney (interim), Congressional Hunger Center (DC)

  • Marge Kilkelly, Northeast States Association for Agricultural Stewardship, Council of State Governments (ME)

  • Kim Leval, Center for Rural Affairs (OR)

  • Kate MacKenzie, Food Change (NY)
  • Brett Melone, Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (CA)

  • Susan Roberts, Drake University/FAS Policy Fellows Program (IA)

  • CC Secretariat: Allen Hance, Northeast-Midwest Institute (DC)

  • FFPP Facilitator: Patrick Field, Consensus Building Institute (MA)

Participating Organizations

Lead organizations participating in the Farm and Food Policy Project include:

Participating organizations in the Farm and Food Policy Project include:
  • Added Value
  • Agriculture and Land Based Training Association
  • American Community Gardening Association
  • American Natural Heritage Foundation
  • Bread for the World
  • C.A.S.A. del Llano (Communities Assuring a Sustainable Agriculture)
  • California Food and Farming Coalition
  • Center for Rural Affairs
  • Congressional Hunger Center
  • Dakota Rural Action
  • Delta Land and Community, Inc.
  • Ecoliteracy
  • Farm to Table
  • FoodChange
  • The Food Project
  • Food Research and Action Center
  • Future Harvest/CASA (Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Growing Power
  • Illinois Stewardship Alliance
  • Innovative Farmers of Ohio
  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  • Iowa Environmental Council
  • Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
  • Just Harvest: A Center for Action Against Hunger
  • Kansas Rural Center
  • Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Land Stewardship Project
  • Landloss Prevention Project
  • Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
  • Michigan Integrated Food and Farming System
  • Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
  • The Minnesota Project
  • National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
  • National Catholic Rural Life Conference
  • National Center for Appropriate Technology
  • National Council of Churches
  • National Immigrant Farmer Initiative
  • Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
  • Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society
  • Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association
  • Oregon Food Bank
  • Organic Farming Research Foundation
  • Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA
  • Sierra Club Agriculture Committee
  • Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland
  • Soil and Water Conservation Society
  • Society for Nutrition Education
  • Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
  • Southwest Marketing Network
  • Utahns Against Hunger
  • The Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network
  • Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
  • William C. Velasquez Institute
  • Women Food and Agriculture Network
  • World Hunger Year
  • and consultants Fern Gale Estrow, Kami Pothukuchi, and Lydia Villanueva.

*The Farm and Food Diversity Initiative is based at the Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural and its Policy Team, which in addition to the Rural Coalition includes:
  • Land Loss Prevention Project (Chair)
  • The Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association
  • Farmworker Association of Florida
  • Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
  • The Food Project
  • Institute for Community Resource Development
  • Intertribal Agriculture Council
  • National Hmong American Farmers, Inc.
  • The National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association
  • Organización in California de Lideres Campesinas
  • William C. Velasquez Institute
  • Edmond Gomez of New Mexico State University
  • and consultant Lloyd Wright.