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.
Scholarship Winners: Food Sovereignty Tour Cuba 2017
Blog | John Spradling | Nov 27, 2017
Thanks to the generosity of Food Sovereignty Tour donors, we have sent 3 food sovereignty activists to Cuba, enabling them…
Video: Author Eric Holt-Giménez Discusses A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism
Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Nov 15, 2017
Co-published with Monthly Review Press Available November 2017, $25 from foodfirst.org For review copies or interview and speaking inquiries with author Eric…
Out of the ashes: Rebuilding Resilience with our Food and Farming Community in Sonoma
Blog | Caitlin Hachmyer and Eric Holt-Giménez | Nov 15, 2017
By Caitlin Hachmyer, Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food and the Commons in the United States contributing author and farmer, Red H Farm;…
The Capitalism in our Food
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Marion Nestle | Sep 11, 2017
Click here to view this Backgrounder in Portuguese. Click here to view this Backgrounder in Spanish. This Backgrounder by Marion Nestle is…
Food Sovereignty: Changing the Food System by Changing Everything
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 19, 2017
A recent article by the Southern Foodways Alliance writer John T. Edge in the New York Times entitled The Hidden…
The Politics of Food: The More Things Stay the Same, the More They Change
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jun 5, 2017
After four decades of working to end the injustices that cause hunger, the tide is finally turning. As the nation’s…
Food First Fellow Simran Sethi Featured as Food Leader Under 40
Blog | Ahna Kruzic | May 3, 2017
Simran Sethi, Food First Fellow, was recently recognized as one of Food Tank’s 20 Food Leaders Under 40. Simran Sethi is…
People’s Climate March: A Powerful Day for Climate Justice & Food Sovereignty
Blog | Ahna Kruzic | Apr 30, 2017
[View the story “Food First: Food Sovereignty + Climate Justice” on Storify]
Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities: Opportunities to Bridge Environmental Justice and Soil Carbon Sequestration
Policy Brief | Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Giménez, Nikki Silvestri and Torri Estrada | Apr 18, 2017
In 2016, global atmospheric CO2 concentrations passed 400 ppm. To get back to the safe zone, generally recognized as below…
Cultivating Gender Justice
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | | Mar 29, 2017
Author’s note: Thank you to Tasnim Elboute, Ayana Crawford, McKenna Jacquemet, Matthew Rose-Stark, Erik Hazard, and Jonathan Baldoza for their invaluable and…
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