Welcome to RAFI

The Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA cultivates markets, policies and communities that support thriving, socially just and environmentally sound family farms.

While focusing on North Carolina and the southeastern United States, we also work nationally and internationally. RAFI is creating a movement among farm, environmental and consumer groups to ensure that:

family farmers have the power to earn a fair and dependable income;
everyone who labors in agriculture is respected, protected, and valued by society;
air, water and soil are preserved for future generations;
the land yields healthy and abundant food and fiber that is accessible to all members of society;
the full diversity of seeds and breeds, the building blocks of agriculture, are reinvigorated and publicly protected.

News

We're hiring: Information Specialist for Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund and other volunteer and intern opportunities

Press release: RAFI to give $2 million in grants to NC farmers in 2011

Emerging issue: Gas leases and North Carolina landowners

Proposed USDA rules would level the playing field for contract poultry famers.

The USDA and Justice Department are holding hearings on competition and concentration in agriculture. Don't miss this historic opportunity for fair, competitive markets. Take action. Read the latest on our blog, and watch part of Kay Doby's testimony at the poultry hearing.

Remembering Dan Pollit

Fraud Alert: Potential fraud is being committed by individuals using our name and the name of Dan Pollitt, Jr. An individual identifying herself as Mrs. Anna Paul is sending emails indicating that recipients have been awarded "a cash Grant/ Donation for your own personal, Health, and farming development." This email is not from us.Neither RAFI-USA nor Mr. Pollitt is in any way associated with these emails. If you receive one of these e-mails, please notify Claire Hermann, RAFI Communications Associate, at claire@rafiusa.org. Thank you for your help.

site updated 8/18/10