Author Archives for Erik Hazard
USDA Invests Over $21.8M to Build Agricultural Capacity at HBCUs in the Nation’s Land-grant University System
July 28, 2021 9:27 pm Comments Off on USDA Invests Over $21.8M to Build Agricultural Capacity at HBCUs in the Nation’s Land-grant University System(Media contact: NIFA Director of Communications Faith Peppers, faith.peppers@usda.gov, (816) 745-0959) WASHINGTON, July 28, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced…
How the Lack of Parity Supports Industrial Livestock Production
July 26, 2021 10:30 pm Comments Off on How the Lack of Parity Supports Industrial Livestock ProductionThis publication was originally published by disparitytoparity. The end of parity pricing and supply management farm programs was a huge…
Communicating for Food Sovereignty: People’s Culture and Popular Education
June 23, 2021 7:02 pm Comments Off on Communicating for Food Sovereignty: People’s Culture and Popular EducationEN Communicating for food sovereignty: people’s culture and popular education Food sovereignty, among the multitude of ideas that it encompasses, is also about defending the billion diversities that…
Food First Response to Recent Restraining Order Halting Relief Included in the American Rescue Plan Act
June 14, 2021 10:24 pm Comments Off on Food First Response to Recent Restraining Order Halting Relief Included in the American Rescue Plan ActFood First stands with Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander farmers. We, along with many other food and farm…
Fishing in the Bohol Sea
June 11, 2021 3:38 pm Comments Off on Fishing in the Bohol SeaWalking up the road in the warm night, with the town sleeping around them, two men turn onto a dirt…
Biden’s New Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Is Unprecedented—More for Her Climate Warrior Politics Than Her Identity
March 26, 2021 5:50 pm Comments Off on Biden’s New Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Is Unprecedented—More for Her Climate Warrior Politics Than Her IdentityThis article was produced by Economy For All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. In her farewell address to…
Righting the Wrongs
March 8, 2021 5:09 pm Comments Off on Righting the WrongsThe following is an op-ed by Food First’s Vice President, Bobby Wilson. In 2020, African Americans affirmed the power of…
A third of all food in the U.S. gets wasted. Fixing that could help fight climate change
March 1, 2021 5:10 pm Comments Off on A third of all food in the U.S. gets wasted. Fixing that could help fight climate changeEvent Date: Saturday February 20th Event Title: Black Farmer’s Roundtable/Town Hall Meeting Part of what: Part 2 of a series…
The Double-Edged Sword of Being a Teacher During a Global Pandemic
February 15, 2021 4:11 pm Comments Off on The Double-Edged Sword of Being a Teacher During a Global PandemicThe following is an op-ed by Food First’s Vice President, Bobby Wilson. When I think of teachers, I think of…
Democrats Must Show that Politics Can Improve Struggling People’s Lives
February 4, 2021 7:14 pm Comments Off on Democrats Must Show that Politics Can Improve Struggling People’s LivesThroughout the year, Food First plans to provide perspective on some of the policies that the new Biden administration, as…
Parity: An Economic Foundation for an Agroecological System
January 12, 2021 4:41 pm Comments Off on Parity: An Economic Foundation for an Agroecological SystemThis article was produced by Disparity to Parity and was republished here with permission. Joan Robinson, a renowned economist of…
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