Backgrounders & Issue Briefs
Rivers of Finance, But Not a Drop to Drink: Financialization, Power, and Agriculture in California’s Parched Central Valley
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Tom Philpott | Dec 14, 2020
The San Joaquin Valley stands as one of the jewels of US agriculture: a massive producer of fruits, vegetables, wine grapes, and nuts. Like the state of California itself, it came into US possession during a gold rush—and has been shaped by money and power ever since.
Capitalism, Crisis, and the Political Challenge for the US Food Movements
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Eric Holt-Giménez | Oct 27, 2020
The following Backgrounder is an excerpt from Food First’s “A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: The Political Economy of What We…
Family Farmers And Farmworkers Face The Virus: How Food Sovereignty Activists See The Crisis as a Pivotal Moment for Change
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Jun 11, 2020
The following is a special edition, eight-page Backgrounder covering the experiences and insights from farmers and farmworkers during the COVID-19…
Can Radical Researchers Get Their Act Together?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Alastair Iles, Annie Shattuck, Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Erik Hazard, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, M. Jahi Chappell and Maywa Montenegro | Mar 26, 2020
What does it look like when activist-scholars, embedded in academic institutions that foster a culture of individualism and competition, work to collectivize their efforts and support social movements fighting for systemic change?
Scaling Agroecology from the Bottom up: Six Domains of Transformation
Academic Publication | Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Colin R. Anderson, Csilla Kiss, Janneke Bruil, M. Jahi Chappell and Michel P. Pimbert | Feb 21, 2020
How can agroecology be advanced, amplified, scaled up and out? In each context, there are enabling and disabling conditions that shape the potential for agroecology to be scaled. This Food First Issue Brief identifies six ‘domains of transformation’ that are essential to consider in agroecology transformations.
Philippine Banana Farmers: Their Cooperatives and Struggle for Land Reform and Sustainable Agriculture
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Feb 13, 2020
Thirty years ago many banana workers in the Philippines made a radical change in their work and lives. They transformed the militant unions they had organized to wrest a decent living from the multinational corporations that control much of the world’s food production. Instead of working for wages, they used the country’s land reform law to become the owners of the plantations where they had labored for generations.
Biodiversity and Agriculture: Nature’s Matrix and the Future of Conservation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Angus Wright, Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer | Dec 2, 2019
To download this Backgrounder, click here. When we were children, a long auto trip would require a stop every hour…
Continuing on the Road to Ending Hunger
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | M. Jahi Chappell | Sep 17, 2019
It is within our reach to end hunger in the world. It has been within our reach for a while now. But the challenges we must surmount to achieve this have been fundamentally, essentially institutional.
The People Went Walking: How Rufino Dominguez Revolutionized the Way We Think About Migration Part III
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Aug 22, 2019
This publication was edited by Luis Escala Rabadan. This publication is the final part of a three part Issue Brief…
La gente se iba andando: Cómo Rufino Domínguez transformó nuestra manera de pensar acerca de la migración Parte III
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | David Bacon | Aug 22, 2019
Traducción por Rosalí Jurado y Alan Llanos Velázquez, Edición: Nancy Utley García y Luis Escala Rabadán. Esta publicación es la…
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