Fighting To Save Black-Owned Land Since 1967 With Cooperatives Update: May 29, 2018
ABOUT COOPERATIVES Co-ops are the best people development institutions you can have.... Ray Marshall 1992
ARTICLES ON COOPERATIVES • Impact of Cooperatives on the United States Economy • How Successful Cooperative Economic Models Can Work Wonderfully • Early History of Cooperatives in Black America _____________ How to Start a Cooperative and Cooperative Marketing
Federation History Hearing from Wendell Paris Federation (2009)
2012 Census of Agriculture Information 2017 Agriculture Census Upcoming Farmers should sign up for census forms Black Farmer Census Information in the following states: Alabama Georgia Mississippi South Carolina
Black Farmers: Historical Studies and information about the Black Farmer Lawsuit
Our Capital Campaign 50 years of Courage, Commitment & Community
Click here for 2017 Annual Report
MAY 2018 Our Capital Campaign CLICK HERE!
December 2017
Federation/LAF Partners with Farm Aid to Provide Disaster Relief for Family Farmers in Texas and the US Virgin Islands Affected by Hurricanes A Successful and Historic Co-op Federation Supporting Black Farmers Turns 50
Louis Rivers
July 2017
Federation/LAF Signs MOU with USDA Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Establishes Regional Heirs Property and Mediation Center
May 2017
Job Announcements at the Federation
Adminstrative Assistant
Forestry Outreach Specialist
April 2017
"In the Field with Farmer Ben Burkett"
March 2017
Click here for video of the Federation's Urban Agriculture work in Birmingham, Alabama "Heathy Food Options in the City"
John & Carol Zippert honored with induction into "Co-op Hall of Fame"
Rainge Tapped to Lead 'Land Retention and Advocacy' for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/ Land Assistance Fund
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