The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund is working in seven (7) southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) to provide regional and coordinated outreach, education and direct technical assistance to African American farmers and landowners around financial planning, farm and forest management/business planning, tax planning, market planning, cooperative development and support, and land tenure/heirs' property issues.

The objectives are (1) to increase equitable access to all of USDA agencies, programs and services, specifically FSA, NRCS, Rural Development, US Forest Service, APHIS, AMS, NASS and NIFA; (2) increase income and wealth of individual farmers and landowners via financial planning, farm and forest management planning, tax planning, market planning and related efforts of direct technical support; (3) aggregate farmers and landowners into cooperatives and provide follow-up support and technical assistance in order to provide scale to small scale farmers and landowners in order to build collective knowledge, infrastructure and wealth; and (4) eliminate barriers to accessing USDA and other resources as well as to preserve and maintain the land base in African American communities via education, outreach and direct technical assistance around land tenure/heirs property issues.