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 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.
Shredding the Safety Net: Welfare Reform As We Know It
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anuradha Mittal, Marilyn Borchardt and Peter Rosset | Dec 1, 1998
On Aug. 22, 1996, President Clinton signed Welfare Reform into law.
Consolidating the Commodity Chain: Organic farming and agribusiness in northern California
Development Report | Christina Getz, Daniel Buck and Julie Guthman | Jan 31, 1996
This study focuses on the northern California vegetable sector.
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