This Land is Whose Land? Dispossession, Resistance and Reform in the United States
The disastrous effects of land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally.
Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue
The conference “Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue” was held at Yale University on September 14–15, 2013. The event brought together leading scholars and political activists who are both advocates and skeptics of the concept of food sovereignty.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A threat to democracy and food sovereignty
The TPP brings agriculture back into multilateral trade negotiations with a vengeance.
Grabbing Power: The new struggles for land, food and democracy in Northern Honduras
In 2009, Honduran elites financed a coup to grab land and power. The peasants of the Aguán Valley are fighting to grab it back.
We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can’t End Hunger
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 36:595–598 (2012)
Survival Pending Revolution: What the Black Panthers can teach the US food movement
To inoculate ourselves against the dangers of being co-opted into the very food system we have spent a decade criticizing, we need food politics.
Smallholder Solutions to Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change
With the global food crisis, international agreement has emerged regarding the importance of smallholder agriculture in the battle against hunger and poverty.
Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems
In communities around the world the power of the people is at work regaining control of our ailing food systems. This movement is diverse, creative and powerful.
Food Policy Councils: Lessons learned
The central aim of most Food Policy Councils is to identify and propose innovative solutions to improve local or state food systems.
Cultivating the Commons: Assessing the potential for urban agriculture on Oakland’s public land
This project aims to locate Oakland’s “commons”—land that is owned by public agencies—and assess the potential for urban agriculture on this land.