FOOD FIRST – Amplifying Grassroots Voices in Food Justice (Hardcopy)

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Amplifying Grassroots Voices in Food Justice

This is a story of resistance and renewal.

Across four continents, farmers, fishers, seed-keepers and organizers are pushing back against corporate control, land dispossession and climate change, and rebuilding their food systems from the ground up. In Kenya, smallholders are adapting to drought. In Bangladesh, women are reclaiming their right to land. In Chile, seed-keepers are saving the varieties industrial agriculture tried to erase. In Detroit, Black-led cooperatives are taking back their neighborhood food economy. In Hopitutskwa, the Hopi homeland, dry farmers carry on practices that have fed their people for centuries.

The book gathers illustrated, first-person portraits from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Hopitutskwa. It gives readers a close, ground-level view of the global food sovereignty movement: land reclamation, agroecology, cooperative markets and traditional knowledge. It ends with a call to action for readers who want to join the work.