A Season for Solidarity
Documenting the Agricultural Justice Project &
Growing the Coalition for Food Justice
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Statement from the AJP Board
In 2026, after nearly 30 years of work together as a coalition of small farmer advocates and farmworker organizations, the Agricultural Justice Project is closing down.
This has not been an easy decision. We badly need a better food system. For many years we persisted despite organizational challenges because of our dedication to the mission of AJP, “to transform the food system by seeking justice, fairness, and empowerment for everyone from farm to retail.” However, after an extended process to evaluate our programs and future possibilities for our work, we still lack the resources to keep going. While we take this step of closure with heavy hearts, we also know that many of our friends and collaborators are doing vital, beautiful work to transform our food and agriculture system and win a better world for our people. We trust that this transition for AJP will make space for new voices, new visions, and new projects to emerge that continue the important work of fighting for the people of the land.
Our sunsetting report summarizes an outreach and assessment process led by our General Coordinator, Jon Magee. This process has brought into sharp relief the incongruities between our organizational mission and the strategies that we employed through these many years—especially certification. This process also took place at a moment when our movements are strategizing how to resist an authoritarian administration’s attacks on working people across our country. We hope that the resulting report and its conclusions help all of us to meet this moment, building power and winning the justice we truly deserve.
Site contents
We created this website as an archive of AJP’s work, in the hopes of contributing to movement knowledge and practice going forward. It consists of two parts:
Sunsetting report
A Season for Solidarity covers AJP’s history, movement conditions in farming and labor, and priorities towards winning justice in agriculture going forward. Available for web reading. PDF and print-on-demand book coming soon.
AJP Toolkit
Our resource library for folks working to make their workplaces fair and just. We have added additional archival documents from our history, including the final version of the AJP standards.
For information from AJP’s former website, see the Wayback Machine.
About AJP
From 1999 to 2026, the Agricultural Justice Project brought together farmworkers, farmers, and their communities to help build a food system that’s fair and just. We convened stakeholders to set standards of food justice, rooted in accountability to workers and community-scale farmers. These standards were the basis for our Food Justice Certification program. Through our technical assistance program, we helped people in farm and food workplaces implement the fair labor practices embodied in our Food Justice Certified standards. Through all of our programs and advocacy, we fostered cooperation and solidarity across groups in order to build a movement broad and deep enough to transform the way the US grows and distributes food. For more information, see our report on our work.