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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The California Food and Farming Network released the 2020 scorecard, revealing policy votes of California’s 120 elected state legislators, with a majority of legislators earning top marks.
A week after the inauguration of Governor Gavin Newsom and a few days into the legislative session, the California Food and Farming Network (CFFN) and the California Food Policy Council (CAFPC) have released the 2018 Food & Farm Scorecard — a report revealing the policy votes of California’s 120 elected state legislators on food and farming issues. Pesticide Action Network is a member of CFFN.
