Sakuma Farms Workers Protest Exploitative Guest Worker Initiative
Blog | Carly Finkle | Sep 4, 2013
Low wages and poor working conditions at the Sakuma Brothers Farm in Washington State prompted over 200 seasonal farmworkers to…
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Introducing Our 2013 Food Sovereignty Tours Fellow!
Blog | Katie Brimm | Aug 26, 2013
This year we received a generous grant from The Small Planet Fund to sponsor one emerging leader to participate on…
Dispatches from an FST Fellow- Part I
Blog | Sunyoung Yang | Aug 26, 2013
As this year’s Food Sovereignty Tour Fellow, I will be a participant in the delegation for Food, Land, Democracy in…
Risotto al Barolo: A Tribute to Piedmont, Italy
Blog | Sofia Salazar-Rubio | Aug 25, 2013
Despite having less land area than the state of California, Italy is the fourth largest rice-exporting country in the world…
Why Food Prizes Shouldn’t Go to Biotech Scientists
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 18, 2013
Back in June, three corporate scientists were recognized for conducting the original research on using plant bacterium to insert genes…
It’s a Labor Dispute, Not a “Cultural Misunderstanding”: Sakuma workers organize
Blog | Leah Scrivener and Rosalinda Guillén | Aug 15, 2013
Since their first walkout on July 10th, berry pickers on Sakuma Brothers Farms in Burlington, Washington have struck several times…
Two Hands, Two Legs, One Heart
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 14, 2013
Over twenty years ago, over a cup of very strong, sweet and freshly roasted coffee, a wizened campesino farmer from…
“Changing Contexts, Consistent Principles”: A conversation with Walden Bello
Blog | Leah Scrivener | Jul 25, 2013
Walden Bello became an analyst at Food First in 1987 and later served as Executive Director from 1990 to 1994.…
Immigration Reform: A path to servitude?
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Leah Scrivener | Jul 12, 2013
After a disappointing decision in late June that flew in the face of immigrant rights, the Senate successfully passed their…
Herakles Farms in Cameroon: Agribusiness is the problem, not the solution
Blog | Jean Pierre Bitchoka | Jul 10, 2013
Since the 2008 food crisis, investors have increasingly targeted African lands and resources for development, often to the detriment of…
Strikes and Protests Highlight Need for Change at Wal-Mart
Blog | Carly Finkle | Jul 10, 2013
Wal-Mart retail workers across the United States began prolonged strikes in late May, leading up to the corporate shareholder meeting…
Toxic Chemical in Food Cans: BPA endangers health
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Gretchen Lee Salter | Jul 6, 2013
Right now in America there are 13.5 million low-income people who live more than a mile from a supermarket, and…
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