National Latino
Farmers and Ranchers
Trade Association
Please join us for
The Seeds of Rural Resilience: A Summit on
Community Food Sovereignty and Regenerative
Agriculture
Friday and Saturday, May 12-13, 2017 – Atrisco, NM
Preconference Workshop on Rural and Food System Resilience with USDA Rural
Development - Thurs. May 11 afternoon in Atrisco
We invite all Rural Coalition farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers; and our agency partners, allies and friends
working towards organic and sustainable agriculture, grazing, forestry and fisheries to join us for Seeds of
Rural Resilience Summit, hosted by the Town of Atrisco Land Grant, a traditional, self-governing farm and
ranch community.
We will focus on how the culture of the acequias (community irrigation systems) and other models of historical
and traditional knowledge, and patterns of land use, land tenure and decision-making, relate to or could
inform public food, farm, fishery and rural policies and programs to secure enduring and community-driven
results.
We will also review how holistic models emerging in rural communities around regenerative agriculture,
community food sovereignty and rural resilience intersect with current policy conversations around soil health,
agroecology and sustainable grazing. How do these approaches address critical issues such as equity, and land
and labor rights and what potential do they have to address such challenges such as climate change, invasive
species, food safety, and soil and pollinator health?
Our summit will emphasize innovation, collaboration, and intergenerational knowledge transfer. We hope to
emerge with a stronger holistic policy agenda to expand regenerative agriculture and revive resilience in local,
national, and wider food systems. Participants will join the local community for a screening of the film, Las
Acequias--The Life-Blood of New Mexico.
Monday, May 15 – San Isidro Breakfast and Acequia Walk
For more information contact: Jaime Chavez, National Field Organizer, Rural Coalition and National Latino Farmers and
Ranchers Trade Association, [email protected], 505-900-1834.
Registration Form: The Seeds of Rural Resilience: A Summit on Community Food
Sovereignty and Regenerative Agriculture
Friday and Saturday, May 12-13, 2017 – Atrisco, NM
Preconference Workshop on Rural and Food System
Resilience with USDA Rural Development – Thurs., May 11 afternoon in Atrisco
Register and Join Us! (See online links below)
Register online:
Seeds of Rural Resilience Registration: Coming April 12, check www.ruralco.org
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We would love to have you sponsor this event or do a display! For sponsorship information,
check www.ruralc.org.
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click HERE.
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with materials, breaks, lunch and one dinner
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share contribution. (Voluntary)
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share to support travel of grassroots leaders
outside NM. (Voluntary)
$100
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Food System Resilience Preconference, May 11
afternoon
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$250/half-page
$125/quarter-page
$50/business card
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Seed Savers
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$ 500/package
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Soil Builders*
Rural Three Sisters
Supporters*
Regeneration Leaders*
Rural Resilience Partners**
3 meal cost share tickets
1/2 page Ad
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Display Table
4 meal cost share tickets
Full page Ad
Sponsorship Listing in the Program Book
Display Table
8 meal cost share tickets
Full Page Ad
Large Display Table
Sponsorship Listing in the Program Book
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Rural Supporter Listing with Organizational Logo
2 Additional Full Assembly Registrations
Half page ad in the Assembly
Display Table at RC Assembly
Scholarship/Travel Support for 5/10/ 20
Farmer/Rural/Youth
$750/package
$ _________
$1,000/package
$ _________
$2,500/package
$ _________
$5,000 Package
$5,000/package
(w 5 scholarships)
$10,000/package
(w 10 scholarships)
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$20,000/package
(w 20 scholarships)
* All Builders/Supporters and Leaders are invited to provide leadership for sessions in the Rural Coalition Assembly
**All Partners are invited to co- lead or lead special sessions.
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other groups who receive all information, participate in our policy work, in all events and in the
leadership and governance of our Coalition. Please pay your dues based on your organizational
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The Rural Coalition, born of the civil rights and anti-poverty rural movements, has worked for 30 years to assure that diverse
organizations from all regions, racial, and ethnic groups and by gender have the opportunity to work in solidarity on the issues
that affect them all. The foundation of this work is strong local, regional and national organizations that work to assure the
representation and involvement of every sector of this diverse fabric of rural peoples.
The National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association organizes farmers, ranchers and farmworkers; plus provides policy,
advocacy and technical assistance to assist them in their operations.
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Principles and Goals of the
Rural Coalition/ Coalición Rural
The Rural Coalition’s charter members, some 22 national organizations, first joined together in
1978 to bring their combined experiences and skills to bear on national policies affecting rural
people and communities.
They mapped an ambitious course toward general goals articulated in the Rural Coalition’s guiding
principles. These principles, to which all coalition member organizations subscribe, are:

Justice and equal opportunity are the right of all people regardless of race, gender,
ethnicity, or place of residence.
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All rural people are entitled to the good and services essential to a decent quality of life,
including education, health and employment services, housing and basic community facilities.
They are also entitled to democratic community institutions dedicated to serving their interests.
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The long-term viability of rural communities rests on effective control and use of resources by the people living in rural areas,
including family farmers, local business people and working people of all walks of life.
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Community-based organizations are instrumental in the development of rural communities. Public policy should encourage
their growth and strength.
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The federal government has the responsibility to ensure the rights of all citizens and to help secure the fulfillment of these
rights.
Consistent with its commitment to these guiding principles, the Rural Coalition has worked toward two long-range goals:

The development and implementation of progressive policies responsive to rural needs; and

The development of the capacities of rural organizations and people to work effectively for, and to sustain, institutional and
systematic change.
We join together as rural interest organizations to work for a better national and global society.
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Time to Eliminate Rural Poverty Children?
The Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural is an alliance
of farmers, farmworkers, indigenous, migrant,
and working people from the United States,
Mexico, Canada, and beyond working together
toward a new society that values unity, hope,
people, and land.
Since 1978, the work of the Rural Coalition is
carried out and achieved by our member
groups. Operating with minimal staff, our
Coalition facilitates and assists our grassroots
community members to work in unity to meet
the collaborative goals and needs of its member
groups.
Rural Coalition
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