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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.
From COVID-19 to Climate, What We Need Is a Just Transition
Blog | Ville Lähde | Apr 27, 2020
This article was originally published in Finnish and in English on the website of the BIOS Research unit (www.bios.fi), titled…
Farmworkers, COVID-19, and Our Capitalist Food System Webinar
Blog | Food First | Apr 24, 2020
The following videos are recordings of the webinar, Farmworkers, COVID-19 and Our Capitalist Food System, which took place on April 23rd.…
Time for a New Narrative on Climate Disasters: Lessons from Australia’s Bushfires
Blog | Eva Perroni | Apr 10, 2020
The following is the first article from our newest series, Lessons from Australia’s Bushfires. This series will focus on the voices,…
Food Workers Have Always Been Essential—Give Them What Is Theirs
Blog | Erik Hazard and Leila Mzali | Apr 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how an economic system dependent on low-wage labor creates as many issues as it purports…
America’s Farmworkers – Now “Essential,” but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits
Blog | David Bacon | Apr 3, 2020
This article was originally published at The American Prospect. In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation’s…
Responsibly caring for each other during Coronavirus
Blog | M. Jahi Chappell | Mar 16, 2020
I’m wishing you the best during these troubling times. Food First, like many of our peers and allies, has been evaluating…
Of chancers and last-chancers
Blog | Chris Smaje | Jan 23, 2020
This article was originally published at Small Farm Future. Time for me to arise from my book-editing duties and offer…
Farm Workforce Modernization Act
Blog | Food First | Dec 11, 2019
(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Due to the precarious conditions that undocumented farmworkers find themselves in today, it is understandable that there…
The Battle for Seattle and How the Food Sovereignty Movement Helped Bring Down the World Trade Organization
Blog | John Peck | Dec 10, 2019
The following article was originally published at Family Farm Defenders. “This is what democracy looks like!” – that was but…
Taking Utopian Thinking Seriously
Blog | Melissa Gordon | Nov 4, 2019
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten…
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