We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… And still can’t end hunger
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | May 2, 2012
A new a study* from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and…
Global Crises & Global Movements
Responding to global food, fuel and financial crises, social movements are forming new ways of building social power and creating effective, community-based alternatives. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Global Crises & Global Movements
Beyond Voting with Your Fork: From enlightened eating to movement building
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Josh Viertel | Apr 1, 2012
There is a story behind our food. And we believe it ought makes us proud. Sadly, most of the food we eat has a story behind it that we would be ashamed to tell…
Food Movements, Unite!
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Mar 1, 2012
This article was originally published by AgriCultures The world’s different food movements need to work together, argues Eric Holt-Giménez. The…
Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems
Book | Eric Holt-Giménez | Nov 1, 2011
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.
Occupy the Food System: Building a vision of transformation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Annie Shattuck and Eric Holt-Giménez | Oct 2, 2011
The food movement is widespread, highly diverse, refreshingly creative and busy forging a broad-based vision for transformation.
Food Crises, Food Regimes and Food Movements: Rumblings of reform or tides of transformation?
Academic Publication | Annie Shattuck and Eric Holt-Giménez | Jan 1, 2011
This article addresses the potential for food movements to bring about substantive changes to the current global food system.
Food Security, Food Justice, or Food Sovereignty?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Eric Holt-Giménez | Dec 1, 2010
How do we know the food movement is a force for transformative change, rather than a passing fad, a collection of weak reforms, or isolated local efforts?
Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community
Book | Annette Desmarais, Hannah Wittman and Nettie Wiebe | Nov 2, 2010
This book describes the recent emergence of an alternative system--food sovereignty--that puts control over food in the hands of those who produce it.
Linking Farmers’ Movements for Advocacy and Practice
Academic Publication | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jan 1, 2010
In The Journal of Peasant Studies. Over the last few decades, two movements have emerged which focus on advocacy for smallholder farmers.
Growing Climate Justice
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Annie Shattuck | Dec 1, 2009
Climate change compels us for our very survival to create a more just and equitable food system.
Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
Book | Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel | Aug 1, 2009
Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. So why are a handful of corporations making record profits?
From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements
Academic Publication | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jul 1, 2009
The current global food crisis is a crushing indictment against capitalist agriculture and the monopolies that dominate the world’s food systems.
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