Policy Briefs

What’s Smart About Climate-smart Agriculture?

Policy Brief | Marcus Taylor | Jan 17, 2018

Click here to download this Policy Brief, or view in full below. Over the past seven years, leading international institutions…

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…

Honduras: Building a National Agroecology Movement Against the Odds

Policy Brief | Edwin Escoto and Steve Brescia | Feb 17, 2017

This policy brief is adapted from a chapter of Food First Books’ forthcoming book Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground…

From Oases to Landscapes of Success: Accelerating Agroecological Innovation in Burkina Faso

Policy Brief | Fatoumata Batta and Tsuamba Bourgou | Jan 23, 2017

This policy brief is adapted from a chapter of Food First Books’ forthcoming book Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the…

Land for Food Justice? AB 551 and Structural Change

Policy Brief | Antonio Roman-Alcalá and Erin Havens | Jun 21, 2016

Click here to download this Policy Brief in full. This Policy Brief is #8 in the Land and Sovereignty Policy Brief…

Green Manure Crops in Africa: A Report from the Field

Policy Brief | Roland Bunch | Mar 21, 2016

In this personal letter, Roland shares his recent work with the successful farmer-to-farmer spread of cover crops in seven African countries.

Agro-Colonialism in the Congo: Europe and US bankroll a new round of colonialism in the DRC

Policy Brief | GRAIN and RIAO-RDC | Jun 2, 2015

A 100-year old land conflict in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo is about to boil over thanks to US and European-funded land grabbing.

Land & Resource Grabs in the United States: Five sites of struggle and potential transformation

Policy Brief | Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe Brent | Oct 16, 2014

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 7 This issue describes five areas of land and resource grabbing in the US, which also embody key sites of resistance.

Food Insecurity of Restaurant Workers

Policy Brief | Food Chain Workers Alliance, Food First and Restaurant Opportunities Center | Jul 24, 2014

The Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA), the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) and the Restaurant Opportunities Center of…

Land Conflicts and the Criminalization of Peasant Movements in Paraguay

Policy Brief | FIAN International and La Vía Campesina | Jun 18, 2014

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 6. On June 15, 2012, seventeen people were killed in the rural district of Curuguaty, Paraguay.

Farmland Meets Finance: Is Land the New Economic Bubble?

Policy Brief | Madeleine Fairbairn | May 27, 2014

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 5 This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South.

Land Conflicts in Argentina: From resistance to systemic transformation

Policy Brief | Zoe Brent | Dec 1, 2013

Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 4 After Argentina's 2001 crisis, the country leaned heavily on mining and large-scale agribusiness to reinvigorate its ailing economy.

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