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Campesino a Campesino 2017 Learning Tour: Mexico and Guatemala

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Sep 19, 2017

Photos by Leonor Hurtado  Activists of the South Texas Alliance of Young Farmers (STAY Farmers), a member of the Texas…

Mark your Calendars: The Land Justice Tour

Blog | Ahna Kruzic | Aug 23, 2017

Mark your calendars. We’re gearing up for a season of book tour stops in celebration of Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food,…

In Solidarity with Charlottesville

Blog | Food First | Aug 18, 2017

Featured Photo by niXerKG / CC BY The murder of civil rights activist Heather Heyer, intentionally run over at a…

What’s Cooking at Food First: Rice con Queso

Blog | Marilyn Borchardt | Aug 10, 2017

Rice con Queso is a recipe from the original 1971 Diet for a Small Planet. It is a great dish…

Braceros Organize After One Worker Dies

Blog | David Bacon | Aug 9, 2017

This post by David Bacon is published on his blog, The Reality Check.  A farmworker’s death in the broiling fields…

Ending World Hunger: Fertile Ground is Short on Promises, Long on Results

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 4, 2017

Released in English in March of 2017 by Food First Books in partnership with Groundswell International, the Spanish translation “Tierra…

Journey to Organic Revolution and Evolution: Winter Cuba Tour 2016

Blog | Marina Vergara | Jul 26, 2017

This past winter, a group of delegates consisting of a variety of players in the food system came together on…

Familias Unidas por la Justicia: Their Historic Union Contract

Blog | Hayley Jones | Jul 24, 2017

Photo by Edgar Franks. Members of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), an independent farmworker union comprised of Mixteco and…

Special Report: The Success of Oconee County and the Challenges of Implementing USDA Agricultural Land Easements in Georgia

Blog | Tad Brown | Jul 14, 2017

This post is authored by Tad Brown, Laura German, Arundhati Jagadish, Dan Read, Jacob Weger, and Kyle Williams with Levi Van…

Land Justice in Los Angeles

Blog | Grace Treffinger | Jul 7, 2017

Breanna Hawkins, Policy Director for the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Irene Pena, Director of Proyecto Jardin, co-facilitated a…

Food Sovereignty Tours in Cuba: Thoughts on the Importance of Soil

Blog | Marina Vergara | Jul 5, 2017

On our June Food Sovereignty Tour to Cuba, delegates visited La Coincidencia, a permaculture farm in Matanzas, Cuba. This farm…