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New Equity Commission Sets Out to Strengthen the USDA’s Equitable Practices
02.08.2024 - 17:49 / modernfarmer.com
The USDA has a long history of discrimination against minority farmers.
The department’s discriminatory practices factored into 90 percent of Black farmers losing the 14 million acres of land they once owned in the 20th century. The USDA was even found to be distorting data to create the illusion of rising numbers of Black farmers under the Obama Administration.
As a result of its history of racial discrimination, the department has had to shell out major dollars in settlements, including $2.2 billion to Black farmers in the “Pigford” settlements of 1999, and in 2010, a $760-million settlement of the “Keepseagle” class action lawsuit on behalf of Native Americans in 2018. And farmers are still awaiting the $5 billion in debt relief that Congress approved in March 2021 for farmers of color as part of a COVID-19 aid package.
Today, Black farmers make up only 1.4 percent of all US farmers, down from 14 percent in the 1920s, according to the Census Bureau.
[RELATED: How Did African-American Farmers Lose 90 percent of Their Land?]
Now, the department is looking to solve its long legacy of equity problems.
In an effort to “address equity issues, including racial equity issues, within the Department and its programs,” the USDA has launched a new Equity Commission. The commission is funded by and required under the American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed into law last March, and it was created to address the institutionalized racism within the USDA and its practices.
On Monday, the commission held its inaugural meeting, where its 15 members, who include farmers, lawyers, policy advisors and academics, convened virtually. The commission is co-chaired by Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh. Other members
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