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The Food First Blog features news from the US and global food movement, and original analysis from Food First staff, fellows, board members, allies and research interns. Blog highlights are featured in our monthly e-newsletters. Click here to subscribe.

LOS ASESINOS SON LOS MISMOS, LAS RAZONES TAMBIÉN

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 22, 2016

El 3 de marzo fue asesinada Berta Cáceres, activa defensora del territorio Lenca y directiva del Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones…

MURDER IN CENTRAL AMERICA: SAME ASSASSINS, SAME MOTIVES

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 22, 2016

Berta Cáceres, a Lenca indigenous leader and coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)…

Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation into Berta Cáceres’ Assassination

Blog | Beverly Bell | Mar 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 The sole eyewitness to Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres’ assassination on March 3, 2016 has gone…

Participants’ Reflections of our Food Sovereignty Tour to Cuba

Blog | Ana Galvis | Mar 21, 2016

  For more information or to register for our upcoming Food Sovereignty Tour to Cuba, click here.

Desmantelando el Racismo del Sistema Alimentario

Blog | Ana Galvis | Mar 18, 2016

Número 1, Invierno-Primavera 2016   Serie especial acerca del racismo y la liberación en el sistema alimentario. Racismo en los Sistemas…

Food First la Peña event: Discovering the Cuba Food System

Blog | Ana Galvis | Mar 18, 2016

Every third Wednesday of the month, Food First holds a free Monthly Event Series open to the public at La…

Seed laws, certification and standardization

Blog | Tamara Wattnem | Mar 17, 2016

Seed laws, certification and standardization: outlawing informal seed systems in the Global South A series of relatively new seed laws…

WHY WAS BERTA CÁCERES ASSASSINATED?

Blog | Beverly Bell | Mar 17, 2016

March 16, 2016 A few numbers begin to reveal why Honduran indigenous leader and global movement luminary, Berta Cáceres, was…

The Failed COP21 Agreement: Still a Stepping Stone for the Climate Justice Movement

Blog | Maria Alejandra Escalante | Mar 16, 2016

Last December, the words climate change resounded in the streets of Paris as COP21, the UN’s twentieth-first intergovernmental “conference of…

EL CAMINO DE LA RESISTENCIA

Blog | Ana Galvis | Mar 14, 2016

El Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) inició en 1994, para resistir y defender los derechos de la población campesina…

Redefining Our Relationship with the Earth

Blog | Eva Perroni | Mar 14, 2016

As part of their 5th Annual Week of Cultural Resistance, the UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center (MCC) hosted a day…

La Verdad está Presa: Asesinato, Honduras y las Elecciones Primarias Demócratas en EUA

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Mar 10, 2016

La Verdad está Presa: Asesinato, Honduras y las Elecciones Primarias Demócratas en Estados Unidos Eric Holt-Giménez | 03.10.2016 El asesinato…