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.
The Food Crisis Comes Home: Empty Food Banks, Rising Costs, Hungrier Nation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Annie Shattuck, Heidi Conner, Juliana Mandell and Meera Velu | Oct 1, 2008
Food banks are seeing more demand while donations have dropped precipitously.
US Farm Subsidies and the Farm Economy: Myths, Realities, Alternatives
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Karl Beitel | Jul 5, 2005
Over the last five years, groups spanning the ideological spectrum have come out in opposition to US and EU farm subsidies.
Rights Fight: Local Democracy Vs. Factory Farms in Pennsylvania
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Adam D. Sacks | Apr 1, 2005
In 1998, Central Pennsylvania looked like an attractive target for agribusiness.
Breaking Ground: The Community Food Security Movement
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Christine Ahn | Dec 1, 2004
A diverse network of activists across America have begun organizing for a just food system that benefits consumers and farmers.
Beyond the Food Bank
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Brahm Ahmadi and Chrsitine Ahn | Oct 1, 2004
In 2002, 3.5 million people in the United States--the world's richest nation and largest food exporter--worried about where their next meal was coming from.
Shafted: Free Trade and America’s Working Poor
Book | Christine Ahn | Sep 1, 2003
Trade agreements are supposed to benefit us all. Instead, since they've been in effect, life has become much worse for millions of working Americans.
Agricultural Restructuring and Concentration in the United States: Who wins, who loses?
Policy Brief | Raj Patel and Sanaz Memarsadeghi | Aug 1, 2003
The US government has created incentive structures that favor large scale farming operations; in these structures, small family farmers have been marginalized.
Economic Human Rights Bus Tour, California, May 29-31, 2001
Policy Brief | Jeff Perlstein | Sep 1, 2001
The policies of the US government perpetuate growing income disparities, often in clear violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The Last Plantation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal | Dec 1, 2000
Melvin Bishop is among hundreds of black farmers who have filed complaints charging that USDA loan officials have discouraged, delayed, or rejected loan applications because of their race.
America Needs Human Rights
Book | Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset | Oct 1, 1999
The time has come to stand up for what’s right in America. The growing ranks of those without adequate food, jobs, shelter or healthcare challenge our fundamental notions of right and wrong.
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