Beyond Voting with Your Fork - From enlightened eating to movement building
By Josh Viertel, Slow Food USA
When I talk to a crowd of people who are new to the food movement, I often begin by asking them, “How many of you have committed an agricultural act in the last 24 hours? Please raise your hand.” In crowds of over 200 people, I usually see about six hands go up. I call on them: “What did you do?” “I watered my tomatoes.” “I mowed my lawn.” Occasionally, I’m surprised to hear that someone collected eggs from a backyard chicken coop, but most of the time, there are a few home gardeners in the audience, and that’s it.
The Struggle for Food Justice in Fair Trade
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By Christopher M. Bacon, Kaelin Holland and Eric S. George
Cartoon copyright by John Klossner 2011. Originally from Small Farmer big change.
Occupy the Food System: Building a Vision of Transformation
By Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck
Agroecology: A Path to Realizing the Right to Food
By Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
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Agriculture is at a crossroads. For almost 40 years neither the private sector nor governments have invested in agricultural research. In recent years, agrifood companies have increased direct and vertical capital investment to lower costs and ensure the long-term viability of supplies. The global food price crisis of 2007-2008 is now pushing governments to act.
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Grabbing the Food Deserts
Large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of retail monopolies
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By Yi Wang with Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck
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This Food First Backgrounder has an unfortunate title. The term "food
Food Security, Food Justice, or Food Sovereignty?
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by Eric Holt-Giménez
The New Year saw renewed food riots in India and Africa, and record levels of hunger here in the US. This year also saw transformation in the food movement, with new power and national recognition. The food movement has successfully shone the spotlight on hunger and food access in the US, created a drive for more local food, and gotten better policy from the federal to the local level. The question now is: how do we turn these initial reforms into lasting, food system transformation?
Food First Backgrounder Summer 2010
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Food Workers - Food Justice: Linking food, labor and immigrant rights
Nanotechnology: Transforming Food and the Environment - Spring 2010
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By Kristen Lyons, PhD, School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Queensland Australia
Growing Climate Justice
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| Backgrounder Winter 09 Climate Justice color.pdf | 1.17 MB |
By Annie Shattuck
“Climate Justice means stripping transnational corporations of the tremendous power they hold over
our lives, and in its place building democracy at the local, national and international levels.”
– CorpWatch
