Food First Blog
The Food First Blog features news from the US and global food movement, and original analysis from Food First staff, fellows, board members, allies and research interns. Blog highlights are featured in our monthly e-newsletters. Click here to subscribe.
Food First Announces New Executive Director
Blog | Food First | Jun 5, 2019
CONTACT: Erik Hazard, ehazard@foodfirst.org, 510 – 654 – 4400 Ext. 221 (Oakland) The Food First Board of Directors and staff…
What’s Cooking at Food First: Black bean and Sweet Potato Stew
Blog | Marilyn Borchardt | May 23, 2019
Black Beans are known in the Basque Country as Tolosa Beans. On occasion, we have grown shelling beans in our…
What is parity? (And why you should care)
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Heidi Kleiner | May 20, 2019
During a recent campaign stump through the Midwest, Bernie Sanders walked the fields in Iowa, posed on a tractor, and…
Building Food Sovereignty in Tunisia
Blog | Habib Ayeb | May 2, 2019
The Tunisian government is in high-level talks to remove the last crumbling barriers protecting Tunisian agriculture. Efforts to capitalize on…
Fernando Funes explica su compromiso y trabajo de producción agroecológica en la Finca Marta
Blog | Finca Marta and Leonor Hurtado | Apr 26, 2019
“El proyecto está liderado por Fernando Rafael Funes Monzote, ingeniero agrónomo y doctor en ecología de la producción y conservación…
CUSAN March News Brief
Blog | Elspeth Hay | Apr 26, 2019
Take a look at at this article about Cuba’s agroecology movement and what we can learn from it. This article…
A Green New Deal: The Specter Haunting Congress
Blog | Erik Hazard | Mar 29, 2019
Everyone knew that the odds of the Green New Deal (GND) making it through the present Congress were slim to…
Organic Farms Are Under Attack from Agribusiness, Weakened Standards
Blog | Elizabeth Henderson | Mar 19, 2019
The certified organic label has helped save many generational farms and enabled people like me, who do not come from…ECOLOGÍA POLÍTICA DE LA AGRICULTURA: Agroecología y posdesarrollo
Blog | Erik Hazard | Mar 15, 2019
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Eric Holt-Giménez Presents ‘How to Feed the World Without Destroying It?’ on March 18 at UVM
Blog | Allison Spain | Mar 13, 2019
Eric will be visiting UVM on Monday, March 18 and giving a talk in the Livak Ballroom of the Davis Center…
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