California Food and Farming Network
Newsletter Updates: Fall 2025

Throughout this summer and fall, ICE raids continue to plague our communities in California — as recently as today– and while the media has stopped reporting about them, community members are still being disappeared and put into detention.

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Newsletter Update: Summer 2025

Hi Friend, as summer begins to pack some heat, we wanted to provide a temperature check on how our priority bills are doing as most make their way to their second house. 

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Newsletter Updates: Spring 2025

2025 has brought numerous challenges that have made our efforts to build a resilient and just food and farming system more important than ever.

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Open Letter to California Food and Farming Funders

April 2025 Trustees, Board Members and Program Officers, As a group of non-profit colleagues in the food and farming space in California, we write to youwith gratitude for the financial, practical and moral support you continue to provide.

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CFFN’s Year in Review

2024 was a year of flourishing emergence. With an election year comes the anxieties of change and recalibration to a new political landscape.

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California Food and Farming Network Release 2024 Scorecard

For Immediate Release: February 4th, 2025 Sacramento, CA – The California Food and Farming Network (CFFN) releases the 2024 Food and Farming Scorecard, tracking key food and farming legislation and revealing policy votes of California’s 120 elected state legislators.

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Newsletter Update: Fall 2024

Introducing CFFN’s first newsletter! We’re excited to announce that the California Food and Farming Network is launching its first newsletter! In an effort to provide our allies with important and timely updates, we’ll be releasing a newsletter at key points in the year, including October (the end of the legislative cycle), December (the end-of-year), February (legislative champion announcements) and March (Priority legislation announcements).

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Essential but Disposable: State Assembly Labor Committee Hearing Finds State Agencies Fail to Protect Farmworkers and Highlights Community Solutions 

For Immediate Release                                                                             February 9, 2024, 12:00 pm PST                               Sacramento, CA — The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Liz Ortega (D-San Leandro), hosted a hearing this past Wednesday on the failure of state agencies to enforce labor laws for California’s farmworkers.

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Actualización Legislativa del Grupo de Trabajo de Defensa de los Trabajadores Agrícolas: Éxitos y Decepciones. La Lucha Continua por la Dignidad de los Trabajadores.

Por Alexa Marin Benavente, becario de politicas en CFFN En marzo de este año, el California Farmworker Advocacy Working Group (el Grupo de Trabajo de Defensa de los Trabajadores Agrícolas de California en español) estableció sus Prioridades Legislativas: 9 proyectos de ley estatales que beneficiarían a los 500,000 trabajadores agrícolas que laboran en los campos agrícolas de California.

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