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…
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
This article was originally published at The American Prospect. In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation’s…
What does it look like when activist-scholars, embedded in academic institutions that foster a culture of individualism and competition, work to collectivize their efforts and support social movements fighting for systemic change?
How can agroecology be advanced, amplified, scaled up and out? In each context, there are enabling and disabling conditions that shape the potential for agroecology to be scaled. This Food First Issue Brief identifies six ‘domains of transformation’ that are essential to consider in agroecology transformations.
Thirty years ago many banana workers in the Philippines made a radical change in their work and lives. They transformed the militant unions they had organized to wrest a decent living from the multinational corporations that control much of the world’s food production. Instead of working for wages, they used the country’s land reform law to become the owners of the plantations where they had labored for generations.
This article was originally published at Small Farm Future. Time for me to arise from my book-editing duties and offer…
The following article was originally published at Family Farm Defenders. “This is what democracy looks like!” – that was but…
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten…
In the last two or three decades, the food sovereignty movement has been reinventing an institution – the farmers’ market…
It is within our reach to end hunger in the world. It has been within our reach for a while now. But the challenges we must surmount to achieve this have been fundamentally, essentially institutional.
One January morning in the middle of Indonesia’s rainy season I joined a few activist-ecologist friends for an eight hour…
This July, the EPA announced that it would not ban Chlorpyrifos, allowing their sale for non-household use to continue to…
Download the full version here. Do foodies need to know about capitalism? Everybody trying to change the food system—farmers, farmworkers,…