This project aims to locate Oakland’s “commons”—land that is owned by public agencies—and assess the potential for urban agriculture on this land.
While food policy planning is still in its infancy, Food Policy Councils provide a hopeful model for creating a more sustainable, democratic food system.
In the Global South, the rural poor and indigenous peoples are losing their lands, and with it, the ability to feed themselves. The agrofuels trade places poor laborers at the bottom of an export-oriented value chain from which they cannot escape.
Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. So why are a handful of corporations making record profits?
Summer 2009, Vol. 31, No. 113 In its first year the Oakland food policy council has made huge strides.
The current global food crisis is a crushing indictment against capitalist agriculture and the monopolies that dominate the world’s food systems.
In The Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, 2009. Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights.
Despite recent critiques of agrofuels, the industry is booming, signaling transformations in the world's food and fuels systems.
A new bill before the US Senate stands to overhaul the way the US offers agricultural development and food aid to the developing world.
Spring 2009, Vol. 31, No. 112 Food First staff and interns spent much of 2008 documenting the root causes of the food crisis for a book slated for June 2009 publication, Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice.
The search for solutions to hunger, poverty and climate change has brought new intensity to the debate over genetically modified crops.
Much has been made about rising meat consumption in China as one of the causes of the world food crisis.
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