Olivier De Schutter,UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food speaking about why we need to unite food movements
Order the book Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food system.
Seed Lending Libraries: Empowered Communities Take Control of their Genetic Resources
By Katie Brimm
Watch out Chaucer, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Aristotle, here comes Mint, Pea, Squash, and Kale, the new members of your local library. Seed library that is. With more than 30 already underway in the US, six of which are right here in the Bay Area, these pockets of public access are making neighborhoods more resilient to environmental changes and the ever-looming corporate controlled food system.
What Are They?
Leading scientist says agroecology is the only way to feed the world
Ken Roseboro interviews Hans Herren for The Organic & Non-GMO Report, December/January 2012
Organic Can Feed the World
Atlantic Magazine
DEC 5 2011
By Barry Estabrook, a former contributing editor at Gourmet magazine. He is the author of the recently released Tomatoland , a book about industrial tomato agriculture. He blogs at politicsoftheplate.com .
Given that current production systems leave nearly one billion people undernourished, the onus should be on the agribusiness industry to prove its model, not the other way around.
THIRD ANNUAL FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRIZE CEREMONY AND FAIR
ORGANIZATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD HOLD INTERACTIVE BOOTHS ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Eric Holt-Gimenez (Food First)
510-654-4400 X227/ info [at] foodfirst [dot] org
Y. Armando Nieto (California Food and Justice Coalition)
510-547-1457 /info [at] cafoodjustice [dot] org
Growing Change: A journey inside Venezuela's food movement
A powerful documentary about how peasant farmers and fisher people are building a new food system in Venezuela.
Urban Livestock in Oakland
Urban gardening hero, Abu Talib with a chicken at the Taqwa Community Farm in Highbridge, Bronx, New York City.
by Esperanza Pallana and Nathan McClintock
Photo by Ira Block of National Geographic
September 2011
As public interest in urban agriculture spreads rapidly across the country, city officials are attempting to amend outdated municipal codes to reflect this growing trend. In many cities, planners are updating zoning codes to reflect changing land uses and activities, including the production and sale of
agricultural products and the keeping of urban livestock such as chickens, geese, ducks, goats, pigs, rabbits, and bees. Over 20 US cities (including
World Food Crisis Solutions, Get Involved Locally and Globally
Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez participated in this 2009 panel discussion along with Karl North - Northland Sheep Dairy,
Megan Gregory - Bread for the World
Jemila Sequeira and Marie Hall - Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension, Whole Community Project, and
Ohnmar Khiang - UN World Food Programme, Burma.
Justice Begins with Seeds conference
The Justice Begins with Seeds Conference in San Francisco on September 13-17, 2011 includes a plenary panel on Friday, Sept 14 which features Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez along with Marcia Ishii-Eiteman of PANNA and Ignacio Chapela of U.C. Berkeley speaking on Local and global implications of genetically modified seeds.
The conference will be held at the Women's Building, 3543 18th St #8, San Francisco, CA USA (closest BART is 16th and Mission)
