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🚨Reminder! Webinar Tomorrow🚨 We invite you to join the NAAF staff and Native Agriculture Financial Services (NAFS) to ask questions about the latest impact of these changes and how they can support Native producers in building equity. We will also use this space to discuss from the producer's perspective what will be needed to feel fully prepared for implementing these new program changes. FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux will also join the webinar to provide an update from the FSA. Webinar information: August 20th at 12 PM CT Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/updateFSA

Join Akiptan today from 12 pm to 1 pm MST, as we talk about climate smart practices for your Native Agriculture Operation and programs available at Akiptan. Register here: https://shorturl.at/RvyVH

Join Akiptan as we talk about climate smart practices for your Native Agriculture Operation and programs available at Akiptan. Happening August 20, 2024 from 12 pm to 1 pm MST. Register here: https://shorturl.at/RvyVH

Today, July 25th is National Intern Day! Akiptan would like to recognize our current and previous youth interns! Thank you for your dedication, contributions and hard work! We are cheering you on as you uplift and lead the Native agriculture spaces! Thank you to our in-house interns; Mackenzie (2022), Sarah (2023), Layla (Spring 2024), Kinzee & Elijah (Summer 2024) and to our partner interns across the Native agriculture industries!

Join us today, Tuesday - July 23rd, 2024 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm MST to visit about Diversifying your Products for your Agribusiness! Register here:https://shorturl.at/bmbbW

Happening Today! Join the webinar by clicking NAAF's link.

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Akiptan, Inc 2nd annual Staff Retreat - Deadwood, SD

“Native agriculture is regenerative by nature,” says Skya Ducheneaux, who grew up on a cattle ranch on the reservation and now leads Akiptan. “There is something born and ingrained in all of our producers that if you take care of the land, the land is going to take care of you. It's the norm, and it's the expectation.” That’s a mechanism for value-creation in a context where commercial agriculture and factory farming account for 17% of global carbon emissions and contribute to degradation of land, soil and water, labor exploitation and, not coincidentally, land theft from Indigenous communities. It’s business and finance as usual that presents the real risk, Decheneaux says. “Extractive financing leads to extractive practices, and that leads to poor quality of life, stressed cash flows, and depleted resources.”  “If traditional financing was working, we wouldn’t need CDFIs,” Duchenaux says. “In the world we’re in right now, we’re starting to see all of the weak links in our broken systems. Those can only be fixed with patient, sustainable and innovative financing.” Ducheneaux says its patient lending approach had led to a default rate of nearly zero. “There’s a risk in not doing financing how we’re doing it, in not doing it regeneratively.” A lot to learn from this article and podcast episode from ImpactAlpha Akiptan, Inc thanks for writting it Jessica Pothering David Bank great inspiration to start the week! https://lnkd.in/e9R7CjvK

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