[Español abajo] — Thanks to member organization, Community Alliance for Global Justice, for creating this first Alliance member profile! This month, we learn about the Food in Neighborhoods Community Coalition (FIN) whose mission is to build a just, healthy, and sustainable food system in Louisville, Kentucky. What led you and your organization to food sovereignty […]
Local Food & Farming
USFSA Statement in Defense of Agroecology and the Right to Food
Read and Download PDF Ambassador Kip Tom, On behalf of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), we write to express our firm opposition to the content of your speech, titled “Innovation Imperative,” delivered during the USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum in February of this year. Once again, we call on the U.S. government to immediately […]
Urban Food Sovereignty Reclaims Space for Regenerative Culture
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 […]
Reading Lists
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 […]