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.

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…

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…

A Letter from Our Executive Director on His Retirement

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Mar 4, 2019

When I left home fifty years ago, my mother hugged me, smiled, and said: Vaya con Dios—go with God. I…

Food First’s Executive Director Announces His Retirement

Blog | Joyce E. King | Mar 4, 2019

Dear Friend of Food First, As President of the Food First Board of Directors, I am writing to share the…

Puede la agricultura urbana alimentar a las ciudades?

Blog | Miguel Altieri | Feb 15, 2019

To view this article in English, click here. Universidad de California, Berkeley Centro LatinoAmericano de Investigaciones Agroecologicas (CELIA) En el…