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.
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…
How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
Blog | Miguel Altieri | Feb 14, 2019
Cover Photo: City Farm is a working sustainable farm that has operated in Chicago for over 30 years. Linda from…
The Green New Deal: Fulcrum for the farm and food justice movement?
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Dec 17, 2018
Over eight decades ago, the Dust Bowl devastated over 100,000,000 acres of agricultural land and the Great Depression threw 15…
Nyéléni Newsletter #35: Food Sovereignty at the rural-urban interface
Nyéléni Newsletter | Food First | Dec 10, 2018
Food First was honored to edit this edition of the Nyeleni Newsletter on the role of Food sovereignty at the…
Berkeley y la traición de su legado agrícola
Blog | Miguel Altieri | Nov 29, 2018
La Universidad de California-Berkeley, UCB, es una universidad establecida en tierras públicas cedidas por el gobierno federal en virtud de…
This Thanksgiving, Remember the People’s History of Our Food
Blog | Eric Holt-Giménez | Nov 21, 2018
“Afterwards they (as many as were able) began to plant their corn, in which service Squanto [Tisquantum] stood them in…
Berkeley: The Betrayal of an Agricultural Legacy
Blog | Miguel Altieri | Nov 19, 2018
Cover Photo: Miguel Altieri speaking at “Occupy the Farm.” The University of California-Berkeley is a land-grant university, established by the…
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