After Florence, Small Farmers Face Major Hurdles to Federal Relief

Federal crop insurance and livestock indemnity programs mainly serve larger, industrial farms. After a disaster like Hurricane Florence, where do small farmers turn? Open Markets Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway published a story on Civil Eats highlighting the damage done to farmers after Hurricane Florence and how the Federal crop insurance is failing small farmers.

Op-EdsClaire KellowayOctober 5, 20182018, October 2018, Food & Power, Food & Agriculture, Claire Kelloway

Report Reveals Big Ag's Plans to Use Carbon Markets, and Farmer Data to Tighten Stranglehold on Food System

Claire Kelloway, food program director , and Jason Davidson, senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth, collaborate in this policy brief revealing the reality farmers face in the midst of carbon markets and the presence of Big Ag.

Report | Making The Grade

OMI releases a midterm report card, "Making the Grade? Review of the Biden Admin's Ag Antitrust Work,” accompanied by an event, examining food system competition two years into the Biden administration.

Report | Reforming America’s Food Retail Markets

Open Markets conducts a report by Claire Kelloway and Matt Buck sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program.

Report | Building Food Systems Resiliency Through Different Business Scales and Forms

This report discusses how the USDA must improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation through statutes such as the Packers and Stockyards Act.

Report | Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives

This Open Markets Institute report, “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” highlights the vulnerability that farmers, as well as the agriculture industry as a whole, have to ever-expanding monopolistic corporations.

Report | Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System

This report, “Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System,” documents the degree of concentration found in different agriculture-related sectors of the economy and lays out solutions for policymakers.

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