About FSIA

Farmers Supporting Independent Agriculture (FSIA) is a Central Illinois-located, faith-based community organization that works to save family farms, preserve local economy, and promote sound stewardship.  FSIA has successfully negotiated low-interest rate operating loans for Central Illinois family farmers who commit to purchasing from local suppliers, worked with farm realtors and farm managers to develop land stewardship best practices, partnered with institutional landowners to craft farmland leases that create sustainable farming incentives, and pushed the University of Illinois to manage its endowment farmland in a more sustainable manner that benefits tenant farmers and local communities.  FSIA is a member organization of the Central Illinois Organizing Project (www.ciop.org).