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
Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It?
Book | | Dec 12, 2018
Release Date: January 7th. Buy your pre-release order today! “An important and accessible guide for critical thinking to tackle the…
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…A Video Recap: 2nd Annual Rural Justice Summit
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | May 11, 2017
On March 22, 2017, 160 people attended the 2nd Rural Justice Summit at UC Merced. The reach of this summit…
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