Feeding Nine Billion: Five Steps to the Wrong Solution
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Apr 25, 2014
National Geographic‘s recent online slideshow featuring an article by global ecologist Jonathan Foley lays out a Five Step Plan to…
Global Crises & Global Movements
Responding to global food, fuel and financial crises, social movements are forming new ways of building social power and creating effective, community-based alternatives. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Global Crises & Global Movements
Five Global Threats to the Survival of Family Farms in the International Year of Family Farming
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Tanya M. Kerssen | Mar 1, 2014
If the International Year of Family Farming is to be truly meaningful, it must highlight those challenges that most severely threaten to undermine family farming.
Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue
Video | Food First | Feb 21, 2014
The conference “Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue” was held at Yale University on September 14–15, 2013. The event brought together leading scholars and political activists who are both advocates and skeptics of the concept of food sovereignty.
“Food Sovereignty” is Next Big Idea
Blog | Raj Patel | Dec 17, 2013
Concept spawned by farmers moving beyond the fields into global policy Food First Fellow Originally published in the Financial Times…
South Korea: Ground zero for food sovereignty and community resilience
Blog | Anders Riel Muller and Christine Ahn | Nov 20, 2013
Join author Anders Riel Muller for South Korea: Land, Food & Democracy, May 9–17. The bustling, fast-paced, wired metropolis city…
Got Food Security? Look to the world’s growing social movements
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Oct 21, 2013
For the first time in recorded history the next generation is expected to die younger than their parents due to…
Food Sovereignty in Practice in the Basque Country
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | EHNE-Bizkaia | Oct 1, 2013
Food Sovereignty is a right and a utopia that helps us change society. It is the right of all peoples to decide on their means of production and what they eat.
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…
Nyéléni Newsletter no. 13
Nyéléni Newsletter | Nyéléni Newsletter | Mar 1, 2013
Food Sovereignty “Every struggle, in any part of the world for food sovereignty is our struggle.” – Nyéléni Declaration on Food…
La Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty and the Global Feminist Struggle
Blog | Esther Vivas | Dec 18, 2012
Via Campesina is the world’s foremost international movement of small farmers. It promotes the right of all peoples to food…
Beyond the Scarcity Scare: Reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind
Academic Publication | Frances Moore Lappé | Nov 19, 2012
In The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1, 219–238 (2013) Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded…
Hunger is Political: Food Sovereignty Prize honors social movements
Blog | Tanya M. Kerssen | Oct 15, 2012
“Hunger is not a question of production, it’s a question of justice, democracy and political will,” said New York community…
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