Land Justice in Los Angeles
Blog | Grace Treffinger | Jul 7, 2017
Breanna Hawkins, Policy Director for the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Irene Pena, Director of Proyecto Jardin, co-facilitated a…
Land & Resources
A global wave of land and water grabs is concentrating farmland and other food producing resources in the hands of a few, with serious consequences for both rural and urban communities. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Land & Resources
The Launch of Land Justice
Blog | Hayley Jones | Jun 29, 2017
On Thursday, June 22nd, Food First hosted a reception to launch their latest book, Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and…
Antonio Roman-Alcalá: Land Justice and Occupying the Farm
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Jun 8, 2017
In the upcoming book Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States, Antonio Roman-Alcalá provides an analysis on…
Caiti Hachmyer on Land Justice
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Jun 2, 2017
In the upcoming book Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States, Caiti Hachmyer writes about her…
Changes on the Land: Gender and the Power of Alternative Social Networks
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Angie Carter | May 23, 2017
The following is the second installment in our Cultivating Gender Justice Series, and is abridged from 2017’s forthcoming book Land Justice: Re-imagining Land,…
A Video Recap: 2nd Annual Rural Justice Summit
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | May 11, 2017
On March 22, 2017, 160 people attended the 2nd Rural Justice Summit at UC Merced. The reach of this summit…
People’s Climate March: A Powerful Day for Climate Justice & Food Sovereignty
Blog | Ahna Kruzic | Apr 30, 2017
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The #PeoplesClimate #PeoplesFood Pledge
Blog | Food First | Apr 25, 2017
To address the root causes of hunger, we must address climate change. That’s why we’ll be on the ground at…
Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities: Opportunities to Bridge Environmental Justice and Soil Carbon Sequestration
Policy Brief | Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Giménez, Nikki Silvestri and Torri Estrada | Apr 18, 2017
In 2016, global atmospheric CO2 concentrations passed 400 ppm. To get back to the safe zone, generally recognized as below…
Gail Myers on Land Justice and African American Agrarianism
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Apr 14, 2017
Gail Myers, co-founder of Farms to Grow, Inc., shares her powerful commitment and experience in the upcoming book Land Justice:…
Peasants, Science, and Climate Change
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Apr 12, 2017
On April 17th peasant organizations around the world will celebrate the Day of Peasant Struggle. Five days later, on the 22nd…
Cultivating Gender Justice
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | | Mar 29, 2017
Author’s note: Thank you to Tasnim Elboute, Ayana Crawford, McKenna Jacquemet, Matthew Rose-Stark, Erik Hazard, and Jonathan Baldoza for their invaluable and…
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