About the Forum SAFSF amplifies the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems, and the SAFSF Forum is the only national gathering for and by funders supporting just and sustainable food systems change. The Forum challenges participants to understand the need for grantmakers and investors to
How can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production, food systems, and philanthropy? Presented by: SAFSF The extraction and concentration of resources––land, wealth, power––by a relative few is at the root of many of today’s agriculture, climate, and food system challenges; the COVID-19
A deep dive into key barriers for farmers and ranchers to transition towards regenerative practices and highlighting funding levers that can have the most impact. Presented by: Patagonia As part of investing Patagonia’s 2019 $10 million tax break dollars, we have worked for the past year to develop a landscape analysis of the key barriers
The Farmers Lawyer story of saving 245,000 Family Farms from Illegal Foreclosures in the 1980s and Why Funding Legal Strategies is Crucial This session will tell three stories. The first story is how Sarah Vogel, then a solo practice lawyer in North Dakota, brought a lawsuit against USDA for nine broke farmers that grew into a case
Join us for the FREE hometown premiere of Digging In: An Exploration of the US Food System on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 408 Armour Road, North Kansas City, MO 64116. 3-5 pm CT. From KC-filmmakers Nathan Johnson and Jay W. Austin, Digging In follows our host (Masika Henson) around the country to understand who controls our food, who owns the the
in San Francisco, California --- Curious to learn more about SAFSF? Join our new Executive Director Clare Fox and the SAFSF team on Monday evening. Come by for a casual Meet and Greet to learn what SAFSF has to offer and how to get involved. Come as you are and as you wish! This will
Registration is now closed for this event. Join Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) for a day of peer funder engagement, generative discussion, and strategic alignment around funding regenerative agriculture, held in San Francisco, California on March 19, 2024. We will ground our discussions in two recent reports from peers in this space: Participation