Young Farmers Racial Equity Toolkit

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Taylor in Business, Community Development, Farming Resources, Management, Publications, Sustainability, Young Farmers // 0 Comments

New Racial Equity Toolkit from the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC)

This farmers racial equity toolkit is a starting point. It aims to orient and incite members toward preliminary consciousness-raising and direct action. This toolkit does not detail a universally applicable pathway toward resolving pervasive racialized oppression; it is an initial resource for people who are overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the problem, and need help determining how to start dismantling racism in their communities.

We hope these resources help build foundations for broader organizing in our networks, and more concrete action toward dismantling racism and reckoning with histories of racialized dispossession and violence. As always, we invite feedback and critique on the structure and content of this document; we plan to create revised versions of this resource in the future.

Download the Young Farmers Racial Equity Toolkit Here: https://www.youngfarmers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Racial_Equity_Toolkit.pdf

The goal of this racial equity toolkit is to help farmers organize around transformative learning and action. The first section provides basic background information about the Toolkit, including foundational understandings about racism, how it operates in our food system, and why dismantling racism is central to the pursuit of a just agricultural system, and collective liberation more broadly. The second section of the Toolkit provides guidance, structure, and practical tools for convening conversations about race, racism, equity, and justice with your chapter and/or community. Our hope is that these conversations will spark deep engagement and greater personal and collective understandings around the ways in which food, land, and climate justice are contingent on efforts to understand, identify, confront, and dismantle racism. The third section of the Toolkit offers some guidance around organizing toward direct action based on principles of resource-sharing, reparations, and movement building. Direct action will take different forms for different chapters, geographies, and organizers, but this third section is an effort to outline how accountability and action must coincide with self-education and individual transformation.

Other racial equity resources:

Young Farmers for Black Lives Statement (2020)

Racial Inequity in the Food System (2019)

Ending Violence Against People of Color in Food and Farming (2016)