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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Farmworker Advocacy Working Group Midpoint Legislative Update: Successes, Disappointments, and the Ongoing Struggle for Worker Dignity
By Alexa Marin Benavente, CFFN Policy Fellow In March of this year, the California Farmworker Advocacy Working Group set their Legislative Priorities–9 State bills that would benefit the 500,000 farmworkers that labor in California’s agricultural fields.
Midpoint Legislative Update: Top food & farming policies still alive; Awaiting Governor’s signature for funding
By Kenzo Esquivel, CFFN Policy Fellow Every year, CFFN members, representing the diversity of food & farming issues facing the state from hunger and nutrition to farmer livelihood and food chain worker protections, collectively identify policies important for the state’s food and farming system.
Looking Ahead: Four Ingredients to Advocate for Equitable Food and Farming Systems
By Elias Berbari, CFFN Communications Fellow With Election Day behind us and a new legislative cycle right around the corner, an opportunity arises for us all both to consider some important forward-looking questions.
CFFN embodies new structure to advance shared vision for the food & farm system
Our work will not be done until the visions of liberation and sovereignty that our network imagined are achieved for all Californians, but the process of self-transformation is underway.
CFFN takes a stand on 2020 California ballot measures
The California Food and Farming Network recognizes the importance of safe, just and healthy communities as an essential part of a just and sustainable food and farming system.
