
Sneak Peak: Family Farmers and Farmworkers Face the Virus
Blog | David Bacon | May 21, 2020
The following is an excerpt from our upcoming, special edition Backgrounder on COVID-19 and the food system. The COVID Crisis…
The movement for food justice cannot thrive in a system where food and farm workers are exploited, criminalized and hungry. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Labor in the Food System
The following is an excerpt from our upcoming, special edition Backgrounder on COVID-19 and the food system. The COVID Crisis…
The following is an excerpt from an article at the Journal of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. To…
This article was originally published by GRAIN. Cargill has now joined the WH Group/Smithfield in having a meat processing plant…
PDF aquí. El 1 de mayo, las organizaciones miembros de La Vía Campesina-Norteamérica se unen con todos los trabajadores del…
This article was originally published at Foreign Policy in Focus by Food First Fellow, Walden Bello. The global food system…
The following videos are recordings of the webinar, Farmworkers, COVID-19 and Our Capitalist Food System, which took place on April 23rd.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how an economic system dependent on low-wage labor creates as many issues as it purports…
This book review was originally published at the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Download the PDF here…
This article was originally published at The American Prospect. In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation’s…
What does it look like when activist-scholars, embedded in academic institutions that foster a culture of individualism and competition, work to collectivize their efforts and support social movements fighting for systemic change?
Thirty years ago many banana workers in the Philippines made a radical change in their work and lives. They transformed the militant unions they had organized to wrest a decent living from the multinational corporations that control much of the world’s food production. Instead of working for wages, they used the country’s land reform law to become the owners of the plantations where they had labored for generations.
Due to the precarious conditions that undocumented farmworkers find themselves in today, it is understandable that there is a…