Occupy the Farm: A struggle for land sovereignty in the East Bay
Blog | Tiffany Tsang | Jul 4, 2013
Occupy the Farm (OTF), an assembly of activists from the San Francisco Bay Area, is raising its voice against unsustainable development,…
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World Food Prize: Monopolizing the war on hunger?
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 21, 2013
The biotech industry has awarded itself the World Food Prize. A career Monsanto executive, a Syngenta scientist and a private…
Advocacy and Agriculture in Italy: A conversation with Giorgio Cingolani
Blog | Katie Brimm | Jun 20, 2013
In October 2013, Giorgio Cingolani coordinated our delegation to explore food sovereignty in the Piedmont region of Italy. We were lucky to…
Witnessing Food Sovereignty Firsthand in Bolivia
Blog | Alexandra Buck Toledo | Jun 20, 2013
*Alexandra was a participant on the 2013 Bolivia Food Sovereignty Tour I spent Spring Break in Bolivia. It all started…
G-8 Leaders: After 20 years, it’s time to listen to La Vía Campesina
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 13, 2013
This week in Jakarta, Indonesia over 400 farmers from 70 countries gathered at the 6th International Conference of La Via…
An Inside Look at Worker-Owned Arizmendi Bakery
Blog | Leah Scrivener | Jun 6, 2013
A worker-owner at the Arizmendi Bakery on Valencia Street in San Francisco, California, who also works for the Arizmendi Association…
Farm Bill Fiasco: What next for the food movement?
Blog | Christopher D. Cook | May 17, 2013
Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority— yet as the US…
Boricuá: Agroecology and the return of family farming in Puerto Rico
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | May 15, 2013
Over a hundred years ago, my family lost their coffee farm in Puerto Rico when Hurricane San Ciriaco destroyed the…
Genocide Continues in Guatemala
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | May 15, 2013
On May 10th, the Guatemalan Court of Justice convicted the ex-dictator General Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison for…
Korean Food, Land and Democracy: A Conversation with Anders Riel Müller
Blog | Anders Riel Muller | Apr 18, 2013
Re-posted from Korea Policy Institute Spotlight, March 19, 2013 This August 24-September 1, 2013, KPI Fellow Anders Riel Müller will…
A Look at Food and Farming Today in South Korea
Blog | Anders Riel Muller | Apr 18, 2013
*Food First Research Fellow and South Korea Food Sovereignty Tour Leader I have been immersed in Korean food for so…
The “Monsanto Protection Act” of Betrayal
Blog | Ashley Pinkerton | Apr 10, 2013
On March 26, 2013, President Obama signed H.R. 933, the Agricultural Appropriations Bill — a spending bill that prevents a…
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