Backgrounders & Issue Briefs
Five Global Threats to the Survival of Family Farms in the International Year of Family Farming
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Tanya M. Kerssen | Mar 1, 2014
If the International Year of Family Farming is to be truly meaningful, it must highlight those challenges that most severely threaten to undermine family farming.
Food Sovereignty in Practice in the Basque Country
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | EHNE-Bizkaia | Oct 1, 2013
Food Sovereignty is a right and a utopia that helps us change society. It is the right of all peoples to decide on their means of production and what they eat.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A threat to democracy and food sovereignty
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Anders Riel Muller, Ayumi Kinezuka and Tanya M. Kerssen | Jul 1, 2013
The TPP brings agriculture back into multilateral trade negotiations with a vengeance.
Farm Bill Fiasco: What next for the food movement?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Christopher D. Cook | Apr 1, 2013
Despite strong public opinion supporting local food, organic agriculture and food workers’ rights, agribusiness continues to dominate food and farming policy.
Land Grabs Versus Land Sovereignty
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Eric Holt-Giménez | Dec 1, 2012
Researchers are uncovering patterns of land grabbing that are even deeper, wider and potentially more devastating for rural local communities than is generally acknowledged.
The Microfinance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, India: A window on rural distress?
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Marcus Taylor | Oct 1, 2012
The livelihood opportunities of small and marginal landholders were becoming increasingly squeezed, leading to a proliferation of debt in the Indian countryside.
Survival Pending Revolution: What the Black Panthers can teach the US food movement
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Raj Patel | Jul 1, 2012
To inoculate ourselves against the dangers of being co-opted into the very food system we have spent a decade criticizing, we need food politics.
Beyond Voting with Your Fork: From enlightened eating to movement building
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Josh Viertel | Apr 1, 2012
There is a story behind our food. And we believe it ought makes us proud. Sadly, most of the food we eat has a story behind it that we would be ashamed to tell…
The Struggle for Food Justice in Fair Trade
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Christopher Bacon, Eric George and Kaelin Holland | Dec 1, 2011
For decades small farmers and activists have used fair trade to build collective power. But changes in certification have allowed large corporations to enter this market.
Occupy the Food System: Building a vision of transformation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Annie Shattuck and Eric Holt-Giménez | Oct 2, 2011
The food movement is widespread, highly diverse, refreshingly creative and busy forging a broad-based vision for transformation.
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