By Noelia Almanzar, Alliance Intern from Rutgers University ‘26
There has been a dramatic plummet in the number of Black farmers in the US, dropping from 14% in 1920 to 1.4% today. The call for racial equity and food sovereignty in farming is crucial to address the historic and ongoing discrimination against Black farmers, from their farmland being taken to lack of farm loans. The Justice for Black Farmers Act will ensure that Black farmers receive the benefits and services that white farmers have monopolized for generations.
We must confront the USDA’s systematic exclusion of BIPOC people in farming to protect their rights to land and add funds to programs that help create a new generation of Black farmers. Join the Alliance in sending the Union of Concerned Scientists’s letter urging Congress to support the Justice for Black Farmers Act as part of the Food and Farm Bill.