RAFI in the News
Below is a list of links to recent past press clips featuring our work.
- 22 Inspirational Women in Food and Agriculture FoodTank.org, June 2017
- Many Crop Farmers Searching for a Way to at Least Break Even Agrinet News Network, May 2017
- How Chicken Farmers Are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You Truthout, June 02, 2017
- Farm Aid highlights heroic work of farm advocates Farmers Advance, May 31, 2017
- Randolph County farmer using pigs to clear land for cattle pasture Fox News 8 (Greensboro, NC), May 30, 2017
- Film celebrates ‘farm advocates’ who fought back against rural crisis The News & Observer, May 18, 2017
- Farm Aid Co-Founder John Mellencamp Hosts Premiere of ‘Homeplace Under Fire,’ Film Profiles Farming Activists Billboard.com, May 18, 2017
- There’s a Place That’s Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It’s Not California.
Mother Jones, April 20, 2015 - Conference digs towards the root of hunger in WNC
Smoky Mountain News, April 1, 2015 - Florida Organic Growers to host agricultural cooperative planning meeting
in Live Oak
Suwannee Democrat, March 9, 2015 - Railey: Farmer Pushes on for all the right reasons
Winston-Salem Journal, Feb 28, 2015 - Battle Over Breakfast: Consumer Groups Fight Cereal Merger
DailyFinance, Feb 20, 2015 - Conference on hunger at Elon next week
Times-News, Feb 19, 2015 - Advocates Urge FTC to Reject Post-MOM Brands Cereal Merger
Food Consumer, Feb 18, 2015 - Scene & Heard: On small beginnings and great achievement
Winston-Salem Journal, Feb 8, 2015
- SOS: Save our seeds
Sustainable Food Trust, Jan 23, 2015 - Seeds–The Battle for Sustainable Agriculture Revolve Media, Winter 2014/15, Revolve #14
- New Report Finds Farmers Harmed by Decline in Seed Supply ProAg News, Nov 5, 2014
- Project aims to increase sales, food stamp use at farmers markets Smoky Mountain News, Oct 29, 2014
- ASAP, RAFI-USA launch program to increase farmers market sales Mountain XPress, Oct 20, 2014
- Food Justice Certified label aims to verify fair treatment of farm laborers, others in food chain Food Navigator-USA, Sept. 26, 2014
- Farm Aid comes to North Carolina Carolina Connection, Sept. 13, 2014
- Market’s Double Bucks program helps feed families Chapel Hill News, Aug 19, 2014
- Driller apparently wants to frack Meadowmont in Chapel Hill INDY Week’s News Blog, July 23, 2014
- Fracking company makes offers in Durham INDY Week’s News Blog, July 22, 2014
- Six Surprises About the State of the American Farm Huffington Post, July 16, 2014
- The Future of Food: Six things you should know about the state of the American farm OnEarth Magazine, July 7, 2014
- Interview with RAFI Just Foods Director Michael Sligh Lexicon of Sustainability, Summer 2014
- Tyson Foods Chairman Joins Billionaires Club, While Wages For Chicken Farmers Wane BuzzFeed, May 13, 2014
- Lee County landowners fight fracking Carolina Connection, March 27, 2014
- As Commodity Farmers Shift Course, a Library to Collect Their Stories Civil Eats, March 25, 2014
- Like Sustainable Food? Support Public Plant Breeding. Civil Eats, March 5, 2014
- The System Supplying America’s Chickens Pits Farmer Vs. Farmer NPR Morning Edition, February 20, 2014
- Is Tyson Foods’ Chicken Empire A ‘Meat Racket’? NPR’s The Salt, February 19, 2014
- Is There a Doctor in the House? NC Farmers Fall Short on Healthcare Public News Service, January, 2014
- This Holiday, Farmers Report Consumers Are Shopping Locally for Food Public News Service (radio), December 13, 2013
- Government Shutdown Puts a Freeze on NC Family Farms Public News Service (radio), Oct. 4, 2013
- Government Shutdown Harms Family Farms Huffington Post, Oct. 2, 2013
- Resource Rodeo Reaches Farmers Sampson Independent, Oct. 1, 2013
- GMO Field Trials: Contamination Concerns The Epoch Times, Sept. 11, 2013
- Fracking rule gets new scrutiny The Pilot, Sept. 3, 2013
- Dixon Family Farms Our State Magazine, Aug. 13, 2013
- Do the RAFI Crop Hop INDY Week, Aug. 7, 2013
- Heavy Rainfall Leaves Some NC Farmers Drowning in Loss Public News Service (radio), Aug. 6, 2013
- George O’Neal: Nobody Does Anything Awesome By Themselves The Durham News, July 26, 2013
- Hot Shot Goats Bring Hope to One Farmer The Local Palate, July 24, 2013
- Scott Marlow Discusses Global Food Security CCTV America, July 22, 2013
- Giving Cheese a Chance Chapel Hill Weekly, July 18, 2013
- The Farm Bill: a complicated history and why it matters Inside Philanthropy, Philanthropy Journal, June 21, 2013
- Landowner Rights Addressed at Local Forum The Stokes News, May 31, 2013
- One farm grows many farmers News & Observer, April 30, 2013
- N.C. fracking board member zings advisory group News & Observer, Feb. 2, 2013
- Head of cleanup company guides N.C. ‘fracking’ rules, blasts advisory panel as unqualified Winston-Salem Journal, Jan. 26, 2013
- Put it in your pipe and grow it: Former tobacco farms evolve Grist Magazine, May 17, 2012
- Our Dwindling Food Variety National Geographic, July 2011
- Farm Fighters, INDY Citizen Award Winner Independent Weekly, November 22, 2000