USFSA Statement in Defense of Agroecology and the Right to Food
Blog | US Food Sovereignty Alliance | Oct 7, 2020
Ambassador Kip Tom, On behalf of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), we write to express our firm opposition to…
Green Revolution
Rather than increasing food production through land reform and agroecology, the Green Revolution promotes technological intensification using new seed varieties, mechanization and agrochemicals. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on the Green Revolution
Watch: A Whiskey with Raj Patel, Ahna Kruzic, Jim Goodman, and M. Jahi Chappell
Blog | Food First | Jun 3, 2020
On Tuesday, June 2nd, Food First’s M. Jahi Chappell was joined by Raj Patel, Ahna Kruzic, and Jim Goodman to…
The Political Economy of Food for Your Non-foodie Friend in Under 120 pages
Academic Publication | Aliza Tuttle | Apr 6, 2020
This book review was originally published at the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Download the PDF here…
Taking Utopian Thinking Seriously
Blog | Melissa Gordon | Nov 4, 2019
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten…
Vigan’s Public Market: The Commons in the Hands of Farmers and the Poor
Blog | David Bacon | Sep 26, 2019
In the last two or three decades, the food sovereignty movement has been reinventing an institution – the farmers’ market…
The Forest Farms Still Stand: Indonesia’s Krui Forest Farmers Persist in the Face of Capitalism’s Relentless Squeeze
Blog | David Gilbert | Sep 11, 2019
One January morning in the middle of Indonesia’s rainy season I joined a few activist-ecologist friends for an eight hour…
Escaping the Circle of Poison in the US
Blog | Miriam Osman | Sep 6, 2019
This July, the EPA announced that it would not ban Chlorpyrifos, allowing their sale for non-household use to continue to…
Capitalism, food, and social movements: The political economy of food system transformation
Academic Publication | Eric Holt-Giménez | Aug 28, 2019
Download the full version here. Do foodies need to know about capitalism? Everybody trying to change the food system—farmers, farmworkers,…
The People Went Walking: How Rufino Dominguez Revolutionized the Way We Think About Migration Part II
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Aug 16, 2019
This publication was edited by Luis Escala Rabadan. This publication is the second part of a three part Issue Brief…
The People Went Walking: How Rufino Dominguez Revolutionized the Way We Think About Migration Part I
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Aug 8, 2019
This publication was edited by Luis Escala Rabadan. This publication is the first part of a three part Issue Brief…
La gente se iba andando: Cómo Rufino Domínguez transformó nuestra manera de pensar acerca de la migración Parte I
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Aug 8, 2019
Traducción por Rosalí Jurado y Alan Llanos Velázquez, Edición: Nancy Utley García y Luis Escala Rabadán. Esta es la primera…
The Principles of Agroecology: Towards Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food Systems
Academic Publication | CIDSE | Jun 18, 2019
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