In 2012, Somali refugees started farm businesses, aided by an incubator farm program called the New American Sustainable Agriculture Project (NASAP). A few years later, CDI offered assistance to the Somali Bantu community to provide support and resources that aided their ability to eventually acquire a thirty-acre farm!
CDI’s Director of Cooperative Food Systems, Jonah Fertig-Burd, tells the story behind this support in an article published by the Nonprofit Quarterly. Click here to read Jonah’s article.
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