ICT News recently featured the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative’s Associate Executive Director, Carly Griffith Hotvedt, about Indian Country food and agriculture as well as the Farm Bill process and the Native Farm Bill Coalition‘s priorities.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

WASHINGTON — The Farm Bill is one of the oldest federal funding bills. Nearly a century ago, the first iteration of it was written and passed by Congress in 1933, just a decade after Native Americans became recognized citizens on their own lands.

Since then, 18 farm bills have been passed but only one has included and applied to federally-recognized tribes, the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, known colloquially as the Farm Bill.