US Food Justice
Food justice sees the lack of healthy food in poor communities as a human rights issue and draws from grassroots struggles and US organizing traditions such as the civil rights and environmental justice movements.
Who, What, and How Much Is Essential?
Blog | Tony VanWinkle | Jun 22, 2020
Every other year I teach a course titled, “Security, Sovereignty, and Justice in the Global Food System” at a small,…
Family Farmers And Farmworkers Face The Virus: How Food Sovereignty Activists See The Crisis as a Pivotal Moment for Change
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Jun 11, 2020
The following is a special edition, eight-page Backgrounder covering the experiences and insights from farmers and farmworkers during the COVID-19…
Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and All Who Fight to Dismantle White Supremacy
Blog | Food First | Jun 9, 2020
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice…
Watch: A Whiskey with Raj Patel, Ahna Kruzic, Jim Goodman, and M. Jahi Chappell
Blog | Food First | Jun 3, 2020
On Tuesday, June 2nd, Food First’s M. Jahi Chappell was joined by Raj Patel, Ahna Kruzic, and Jim Goodman to…
Sneak Peak: Family Farmers and Farmworkers Face the Virus
Blog | David Bacon | May 21, 2020
The following is an excerpt from our upcoming, special edition Backgrounder on COVID-19 and the food system. The COVID Crisis…
Farmworkers, COVID-19, and Our Capitalist Food System Webinar
Blog | Food First | Apr 24, 2020
The following videos are recordings of the webinar, Farmworkers, COVID-19 and Our Capitalist Food System, which took place on April 23rd.…
Food Workers Have Always Been Essential—Give Them What Is Theirs
Blog | Erik Hazard and Leila Mzali | Apr 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how an economic system dependent on low-wage labor creates as many issues as it purports…
The Political Economy of Food for Your Non-foodie Friend in Under 120 pages
Academic Publication | Aliza Tuttle | Apr 6, 2020
This book review was originally published at the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Download the PDF here…
Can Radical Researchers Get Their Act Together?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Alastair Iles, Annie Shattuck, Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Erik Hazard, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, M. Jahi Chappell and Maywa Montenegro | Mar 26, 2020
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?
Taking Utopian Thinking Seriously
Blog | Melissa Gordon | Nov 4, 2019
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten…
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