For Doria Robinson, executive director of Urban Tilth, an urban agriculture organization in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area, reconnecting people with the land is a chief focus of building food sovereignty in cities. Part of that work includes challenging regimes of private property while also rethinking uses of public lands in […]
Food Crisis From Food Rebellions to Food Sovereignty: Urgent call to fix a broken food system By Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D., Social Scientist and Executive Director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. The real causes of the 2008 and 2011 food price crises were numerous, but the fact that our global agricultural system is […]
The IV National Assembly of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance was held in Bellingham, Washington, and the following declaration and statement of solidarity was created. The Food Sovereignty Prize ceremony also took place during the Assembly. The press release can be found below. The Bellingham Declaration US Food Sovereignty Alliance October 2018 PDF of Bellingham […]
Our food is being used as a weapon, and we are living in a political moment that demands coordinated action. Currently, we are seeing how political borders are being used to attack workers and families. Whether it’s the more than 500,000 people who were cut from the food stamp program over the last 3 years, […]