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	Pivotal_Role_of_Food_Justice_in_the_U.S._Food_Movement_2012.pdf	361.75 KB

By Eric Holt-Giménez and Yi Wang
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, Vol. 5, No. 1, Food Justice
(Autumn 2011), pp. 83-102
Published by: Indiana University Press

Abstract

The global food crisis has pushed the U.S. food movement to a political
juncture. A sixth of the world’s population is now hungry—just
as a sixth of the U.S. population is “food insecure.” These severe levels
of hunger and insecurity share root causes, located in the political

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	Borras_Franco_JOAC_2012.pdf	270.32 KB

Article by Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco
Published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 12, No. 1
January 2012, pp 34-59
This summary by Michelle Rostampour

This important collection addresses the global food crisis, its historical roots, and how it is being addressed around the world. Ronnie Cummins, the founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, calls this book “a healthy and inspiring antidote to the ‘business as usual’ propaganda of the mass media—a recipe for resistance. As this book reminds us, if we want to survive and eat and live in a sustainable world, we’re going to have to mobilize and fight the powers that be.”

Contents

1. Food Wars by Walden Bello and Mara Baviera

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	Food_Crises_Regimes_Movements_JPS_Jan_2011.pdf	314.05 KB

Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck

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	Yale April 2010 Borras_Franco CoC paper.pdf	165.13 KB

By Saturnino Borras Jr. & Jennifer Franco

Borras is a Food First Fellow. He is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University, Canada.
Jennifer Franco is a Researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), in Amsterdam.

Read the statement issued by Via Campesina here: http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2900

I. INTRODUCTION
The past decades have seen the emergence of a “corporate social
responsibility agenda” in response to public and activist criticism of “the
impact of transnational corporations (TNCs) in developing countries and

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	Linking Farmers' movements for advocacy and practice 2010.pdf	969.26 KB

Eric Holt-Gimenez Guest Editor

The contributors to this Grassroots Voices article include: Roland Bunch; Jorge Iran Vasquez; John Wilson; Michel P. Pimbert; Bary Boukary; Cathleen Kneen

Raj Patel, guest editor, Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3 July 2009 , pages 663 - 706

Hannah Arendt observed that the first right, above all others, is the right to have rights. In many ways, Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty is precisely about invoking a right to have rights over food. But it's unclear quite how to cash out these ideas. This Grassroots Voices section examines some of the difficulties involved in parlaying the right to have rights about food systems into practical solutions.

To read this article:

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	Agrofuels & Food Sovereignty - Canada 2008.pdf	355.39 KB

By Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck

For presentation to the workshop
Food Sovereignty: Theory, Praxis, and Power
St. Andrews College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
November 17-18, 2008.

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	Out of AGRA 2009.pdf	124.83 KB

By Eric Holt-Giménez
Published in Development, 2008 51(4), (464-471)
copyright 2008 Society for International Development 1011-6370/08
www.sidint.org/development/

ABSTRACT:
The global food crisis and philanthropy capitalism have
provided foundations and multilateral institutions an opportunity
to relaunch the Green Revolution in Africa. While the Alliance for
a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) maintains the Green Revolution
focus on genetic improvement, new technological variations
have been added, including a focus on genetic engineering. Eric

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	Nation_Éradiquer la faim en afrique.pdf	54.98 KB

This article appeared in the September 21, 2009 edition of The Nation.

September 2, 2009