Our Current Work
Our initiatives put listening, learning, sharing, and connecting into practice. Working alongside farmers and community partners, we document their experiences, perspectives, and solutions—and share that knowledge in formats that support learning, advocacy, and action.
Food Sovereignty Digest
A monthly roundup of food sovereignty news, research, and movement work from around the world — what is happening, who is doing it, and what it means. Published every month since April 2025.
Amplifying Grassroots Voices in Food Justice
Thirty-six farmers, cooperative leaders, and food justice advocates across [15] countries told us what they need to change the food system where they live. Their answers — the barriers they face, and the strategies already working — are gathered in three formats: a graphic novel, an interactive story map, and a full research report.
Completed in 2025, the study was guided by a single question: what do farmers need to build a food system that is more equitable, just, and sustainable?
Graphic Novel
Each year the global population increases about 1% and we grow enough food globally to feed everyone. So why are 2.3 billion people, or nearly 28% of the global population hungry and malnourished?
The Food First: Amplifying Grassroots Voices in Food Justice graphic novel reflects solutions gathered through our Amplifying Grassroots Voices Research Study. The Indigenous and minority food growers, along with food system advocates who participated in the research study demonstrate together, we can achieve a world without hunger!
Full Research Report
The full report from the Amplifying Grassroots Voices Research Study is coming soon.
Black Food and Farm Cooperatives
Black-led agrarian cooperatives are building community-owned grocery stores, farms, and food businesses in neighborhoods long denied fair access to food, land, and capital. In conversations with Food First, cooperative leaders emphasized that they already have spaces to gather and learn from one another. What they need is hands-on technical assistance with financial planning, legal structures and bylaws, and storytelling that engages their communities. These professional services are often beyond the budgets of small cooperatives, leaving important priorities unresolved.
Food First’s Black Agrarian Cooperatives Collaboration Project will connect participating cooperatives with mentors and technical advisors to address challenges identified by cooperative leaders themselves. Together, they will develop practical strategies that respond to each cooperative’s circumstances while documenting lessons that may be useful to cooperatives elsewhere.
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Through research, advocacy, and direct partnerships with farmer movements and community-based organizations, Food First supports the right of communities to shape and control their own food systems. Your contributions make more people center locally controlled food systems possible.