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.

Trade War with China: The Crisis (and the Solution) Behind the Hype

Blog | Heidi Kleiner | Jun 11, 2019

The US trade war with China and its impacts on agriculture have occupied a lot of media time. But none…

What is parity? (And why you should care)

Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez and Heidi Kleiner | May 20, 2019

During a recent campaign stump through the Midwest, Bernie Sanders walked the fields in Iowa, posed on a tractor, and…

A Green New Deal: The Specter Haunting Congress

Blog | Erik Hazard | Mar 29, 2019

Everyone knew that the odds of the Green New Deal (GND) making it through the present Congress were slim to…

Organic Farms Are Under Attack from Agribusiness, Weakened Standards

Blog | Elizabeth Henderson | Mar 19, 2019

The certified organic label has helped save many generational farms and enabled people like me, who do not come from…

Food, Climate, and the Green New Deal: A Social Contract for Justice?

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Eric Holt-Giménez and Heidi Kleiner | Mar 11, 2019

Download a PDF version of this article here. The Green New Deal has taken the country by storm. The non-binding…

Puede la agricultura urbana alimentar a las ciudades?

Blog | Miguel Altieri | Feb 15, 2019

To view this article in English, click here. Universidad de California, Berkeley Centro LatinoAmericano de Investigaciones Agroecologicas (CELIA) En el…