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News and Views: Winter 2020
Food First News & Views | Food First | Dec 24, 2020
Download the PDF version here. Food First Looks Ahead to the Next Chapter for Social Movements The end of 2020…
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.
News and Views: Fall 2020
Food First News & Views | Food First | Nov 11, 2020
Download the PDF version here. Food First Brings Together Farmers and Scholar-Activists to Share Analysis and Strategies for Our Current…
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…
News and Views: Summer 2020
Annual Report | Food First News & Views | Food First | Jul 9, 2020
To read the News and Views in full, click here. Food First Supports Farmworker Organizing During COVID-19 Supporting farmworkers who…
Nyéléni Newsletter 40-Land Grabs and Land Justice
Nyéléni Newsletter | Nyéléni Newsletter | Jun 26, 2020
Land grabs and land justice Land is the basis for social life. It is a foundation not only for agricultural…
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…
The Political Economy of Food for Your Non-foodie Friend in Under 120 pages
Academic Publication | Aliza Tuttle | Apr 6, 2020
This book review was originally published at the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Download the PDF here…
News and Views: 2019 Annual Report
Annual Report | Food First News & Views | Food First | Apr 2, 2020
Food is the basis for social life. And we won’t stop until it is no longer treated as a commodity for profit or as a weapon. We will need a deeply informed, strategic, and broad social movement to build power to change not only our food system, but everything. We cannot do it without you.
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?
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