Tag Archive: food security

What Does Food Justice Mean for Farmworkers?

Blog | Gail Wadsworth | Jan 15, 2014

According to a 2007 California Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS) study of farmworker food security in Fresno County, 45 percent…

“Food Sovereignty” is Next Big Idea

Blog | Raj Patel | Dec 17, 2013

Concept spawned by farmers moving beyond the fields into global policy Food First Fellow Originally published in the Financial Times…

Too Poor for Organic? Raise the minimum wage

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Nov 5, 2013

How many times have we heard it? “Organic food is great for those who can afford it, but not an option…

Got Food Security? Look to the world’s growing social movements

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Oct 21, 2013

For the first time in recorded history the next generation is expected to die younger than their parents due to…

World Food Prize: Monopolizing the war on hunger?

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 21, 2013

The biotech industry has awarded itself the World Food Prize. A career Monsanto executive, a Syngenta scientist and a private…

The New Green Revolution and World Food Prices

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel | Apr 11, 2008

It was just a matter of time… and not long at that. The world food crisis and the explosion of…