Ruth Tyson and Rafter Ferguson, Interlace Commons
Agroforestry has the potential to make a transformative impact on US agriculture: helping farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change, increasing profitability, and providing numerous additional benefits. However, agroforestry is a complex and capital-intensive undertaking and farmers require more support to meaningfully expand adoption. Institutions across sectors are scaling up funding and programmatic support for agroforestry, but there is a danger that without focused effort, this wave of support could perpetuate the systemic exclusion of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) farmers. Failure to address these issues would limit the transformative potential of agroforestry, by leaving it without the deep perspective, broad coalition, and accessible pathways to participation that it needs to flourish. Discuss ways to center racial justice in our collective work with authors of “Up From the Roots,” a 2023 report published by Interlace Commons and funded by Edwards Mother Earth Foundation. Read the report: static1.squarespace.com/stati...
Join us at the Perennial Farm Gathering in 2024! Sunday Oct 6th - Tuesday Oct 8th in Madison WI with farm tours in Spring Green, WI on Saturday, Oct 5th. Tickets go on sale in May at savannainstitute.org/pfg2024