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.
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…
Sacred Fire: Ron Reed and Tradition
Blog | Rebecca Murillo | Feb 3, 2017
“I was born into this world looking at the glass half empty,” Ron told Delicious Revolution, a radio show and…
The TPP is Dead: Time to Transform the Food System
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Jan 26, 2017
Donald Trump has killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The United States was to be the largest partner in a treaty that…
Honoring Kathy Ozer
Blog | Ahna Kruzic | Jan 25, 2017
Here at Food First, we are celebrating the life and contributions of comrade Kathy Ozer, who was the Executive Director of…
Más allá de Trump: cómo la privatización de la presidencia por un billonario afectará nuestros alimentos
Blog | Ahna Kruzic and Eric Holt-Giménez | Jan 21, 2017
Translation by Tamara Wattnem. This article was originally published in English. You can read this article in Portuguese here. Donald Trump es monumentalmente deplorable. Pero…
Phat Beets, New Gardens: A Community Response to Food Gentrification
Blog | McKenna Jacquemet | Dec 14, 2016
Food gentrification is a concern shared by many food justice activists. Fueled by a wave of dietary trends, food justice…
The Launch of SOCLA North America
Blog | Stella Carnegie | Dec 1, 2016
On November 17 2016, over 50 researchers, students and farm activists gathered in UC Berkeley’s Moffitt Hall to celebrate the…
Decolonize Your Diet: Notes Towards Decolonization
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Catrióna Rueda Esquibel | Nov 24, 2016
The following is the seventh installment in our Dismantling Racism in the Food System series. Click here to download this Backgrounder, or view…
Black Agrarianism: Resistance
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Dãnia C. Davy, Edward “Jerry” Pennick, Savonala Horne and Tracy Lloyd McCurty | Nov 15, 2016
The following is the sixth installment in our Dismantling Racism in the Food System series, and is from 2017’s forthcoming book Land Justice: Re-imagining…
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