The "socially disadvantaged" label was created in the 1990 Farm Bill to identify farmers impacted by historical and systemic ...

Department ends consideration of DEI criteria like race and gender in agriculture agencies. The USDA recently announced that ...

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins labeled federal programs designed to help Black farmers as "discriminatory," deciding to cut ...

"Federal DEI funding cuts threaten the work of the few remaining Black farmers in East Texas" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan ...

The ANR Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Alliance is a grassroots effort by employees to examine our own individual and organizational complicity in exclusionary systems and to build support for ANR to ...

WASHINGTON, July 18 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it has fired 70 foreign contract researchers after a national ...

Lloyd Wright isn’t shocked that the United States Department of Agriculture is reversing a 35-year-old policy meant to help ...

It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps ...

Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival ...

The USDA has stopped considering race and gender in its farm loans and benefit programs. USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed the policy shift, following directives from the administration aimed at ...