National Black Agriculture Awareness Week

Black Agriculture
Awareness Week
July 10, 2011- July 16, 2011

2011 Theme: Recognition, Justice, and Development

Creating Opportunities for: Awareness, Education, Outreach, and Volunteerism around Black Agriculture

Black Ag Awareness Week is about recognizing, educating, and celebrating the contribution of African Americans, and People of African Descent, to agriculture in our everyday lives. The National Black Ag Awareness Week encourages everyone to:

- Understand how the decline in Black Agricultural Producers is an issue that needs immediate attention.

- Educate youth to want to pursue Agriculture as a viable option to build a foundation for themselves and communities.

- Appreciate the many agriculturally related accomplishments that benefit not just black agricultural producers, but agriculture as a whole, and impact us on a daily basis.

- Bring awareness to food and agricultural issues in the African American community as a whole

No matter where you are, you can do something to celebrate Black Agriculture during this week

Did you know!

That only 1 in 100 farms are Black owned farms

The average age of a Black Farmer is 63

1920, 14% of all American ag producers were Black,

2010, ONLY 1% of American ag producers are Black.

These numbers account for Black Land Loss of over 10 million acres of production and counting

Up Coming Events

Black Agriculture Awareness Week
July 10, 2011- July 16, 2011

U.S. Natural Disasters
Nashville ~ Tennessee Flood 2010

Princeville ~ Hurricane Floyd 1999

Tillery~ North Carolina Drought 1970's

Katrina ~ Hurricane Mississippi Delta 2005

Moundville ~ Mississippi Flood of 1927

Ike ~ Hurricane Texas 2008

U.S. Man Made Disasters

Gulf of Mexico ~ Oil Spill 2010

Tulsa ~ Race Riots 1921

New York ~ World Trade 911 Attack

Los Angeles ~ Race Riots 1992

National Black Agriculture Awareness Week

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