California Farmer Justice Collaborative’s mission is to build a fair food and farming system, challenge historic racism and oppression, and regrow agriculture with farmers of color at the center and directing its course. We ensure that farmers of color directly participate and effectively lead in building a fair food and farming system in California. We unite farmers, advocates, and other allies to challenge historic and structural discrimination and other forms of structural oppression, in order to create the comprehensive change needed to build such a system
Vision CFJC unites farmers of color and allies across California, seeking opportunities, political and beyond, to grow our collective representation and sustain our traditional agricultural knowledge. Our membership includes advocates, academics, non-profit administrators, and farmers who work to promote the economic self-sufficiency of underrepresented farmers. We work alongside small farmers across the state with a focus on California’s ethnically diverse farmers and ranchers who may have limited access to government programs. We respond to the need reflected in our communities for increased public participation by marginalized farmers in market improvement, access to technical assistance and cooperative extension resources, funding and incentives for climate change adaptation, and innovative programs for environmental stewardship.
