Green Revolution

Rather than increasing food production through land reform and agroecology, the Green Revolution promotes technological intensification using new seed varieties, mechanization and agrochemicals. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on the Green Revolution

Agriculture: The Next Battleground for Climate Justice

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Food First | Jun 4, 2019

How we produce and consume food is contributing to climate change and social upheaval, ultimately undermining our ability to produce food at all.

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…

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…

Immigration and the Food System

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Tomás A. Madrigal | Dec 7, 2018

Click here to download this Backgrounder in full, or view in full below. Immigration policy in imperialist nations has historically…

Peasants’ Rights Declaration Presented Before the UN General Assembly

Blog | La Vía Campesina | Oct 26, 2018

New York – October 26, 2018 – The “UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural…

Parity and Farm Justice: Recipe for a Resilient Food System

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Ahna Kruzic, George Naylor and Patti Edwardson Naylor | Jun 28, 2018

Click here to download this backgrounder, or view in full below. Every 4-5 years, the U.S. Farm Bill bounces back…

Putting Agriculture First Without Farmers and Land? Reflections on Tanzania’s Road to Green Revolution

Blog | Youjin Chung | Jun 8, 2018

Photo by Holly Holmes/RTB:  A Woman Works in her cassava field in Mkuranga district, Tanzania. The following article was originally…

Declaration of Small-scale Food Producers and Civil Society Organizations at the II International Symposium on Agroecology April, 2018

Blog | La Vía Campesina | Apr 18, 2018

This declaration was read on behalf of everyone by Mariam Sou, pioneer agroecological peasant farmer, from ENDA-Tiers Monde, Senegal. This…

Statement of The Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) regarding FAO’s 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology: scaling up agroecology to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals

Blog | SOCLA | Apr 9, 2018

To view this article in Spanish, click here. Cover photo by visit.org (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) To download this statement to your…

“Food Evolution”: Propaganda for Public Support of GMOs

Blog | Miguel Altieri | Jun 22, 2017

I recently saw the documentary film Food Evolution, and my overall opinion is that it is a well thought out…

Response to UC Berkeley Early Screening of “Food Evolution”

Blog | Various Authors | Jun 16, 2017

This letter is authored by a group of UC Berkeley faculty, students, alums, and community members. Food First has posted this letter…