QUIVIRA COALITION INC
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Mission Statement
Through education, innovation, and collaboration, Quivira works in coalition with ranchers, farmers, government and Tribal agencies, and land stewards of all stripes to foster resilience on dry working lands.
About This Cause
Rangelands, pastures, and forests constitute our best opportunity for maintaining healthy watersheds, fostering biodiversity, and sequestering carbon. Ranchers grazing livestock on rangeland and pastures manage 790 million acres of working lands in the US, 41 percent of all US lands, excluding Alaska. The ranchers and farmers who tend working lands in the future, as well as the systems for sharing and implementing strategies of stewardship among them, will have an enormous impact on the resilience of our environment, economies, and climate. This challenge is complicated by the fact that fewer and fewer young people are choosing to enter or remain in agriculture. According to the 2017 US Agricultural Census, the average age of US ranchers and farmers is 58. This concentrates the potential for impact upon large swaths of western landscapes into the hands of a rapidly aging population. Additionally, despite a wealth of production knowledge, the valuable experience of BIPOC individuals has been removed from this space—95% of agricultural producers in this country are white (2017 US Agricultural Census), demonstrating an opportunity to grow the movement by welcoming previously erased perspectives. These are the challenges we at Quivira Coalition work to address. Through education, innovation, and collaboration, Quivira works in coalition with ranchers, farmers, government agencies, Tribal entities, and land stewards to foster resilience on dry working lands. Based in Santa Fe, our operations take place on working lands across the intermountain west. We envision a world where agriculture provides for the health of rural economies and communities, fosters social equity, and regenerates climate, land, water, and ecosystems. We work to grow the community of regenerative agriculture until it is embraced as a crucial piece of our food systems, our land stewardship, and our solutions to climate change. Quivira strives towards this vision through three key programs: our New Agrarian Program, our Carbon Ranch Initiative, and our Education and Outreach program. The New Agrarian Program partners with skilled ranchers and farmers to offer experiential apprenticeships in regenerative agriculture. This program supports the next generation of food producers and specifically targets first-career professionals with a sincere commitment to life at the intersection of conservation and regenerative agriculture. The Carbon Ranch Initiative builds the capacity of ranchers, farmers, land managers, and technical service providers to implement land stewardship practices focused on mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Through this work, it also supports and improves local food systems and rural economies. The Education and Outreach Program creates a space for our coalition to share ideas and resources. The program organizes land health workshops, publishes open source technical guides for land stewards, co-produces a regenerative agriculture podcast, and organizes our annual REGENERATE Conference. The Quivira Coalition conducts all of its work in practice of the radical center, a space for collaborative problem solving and coalition building that welcomes diverse perspectives. As a coalition focused on collaboration, we will conduct our work in a way that brings our partners along and supports their land stewardship missions.