Data Centers Are a Direct Threat
To Local Food Systems Commentary by Anthony Nicome Every morning, Carl Stover steps out onto the small back porch of his family’s modest home in Loudoun County, Virginia, and hears a sound that has come…
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‘Right To Work’ Is Wrong For NC
Commentary by Alex Campbell So-called “right-to-work” (RTW) laws have existed in North Carolina since 1947. But NC policymakers are pushing a constitutional amendment that, if passed on the ballot by North Carolinians, would codify RTW…
The Persian Gulf Oil Crisis
Is a Food Crisis Commentary by Raj Patel When the Strait of Hormuz closes, here’s what happens: Energy prices spike immediately. Fertilizer prices follow. Reduced harvests come a season later. Food price inflation—at the gas…
National Security Eats American Farmers Alive
Commentary by UN-DIPLOMATIC Pity the American farmer. A new report [from the American Farm Bureau Federation] has US farm bankruptcies increasing from 216 in 2024 to 315 in 2025. The Midwest alone—the breadbasket of American…
USDA Canceled $300M in Farm Grants
Because of “fraud” — but where is the evidence? By Ayurella Horn-Muller Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology Commons had been…
Tips for Talking with Legislators
By Kara Hoving From tariffs to conservation funds, federal policies trickle down in various ways to influence farmers’ day-to-day decision-making. Small- and mid-scale farmers are feeling the impacts of Washington lawmakers’ shifting priorities — which…
Feeding Kids, Fighting Cuts
Farmers keep the faith after losing USDA funds By Kara Hoving Farmers, more than anyone, are experts in resilience. From unexpected weather to shifting market patterns, farmers are constantly adapting and pivoting to do what’s…
Notes from the Fields
Recent news of organizing and outreach work with NC farmworkers By El Futuro Es Nuestro Farmworkers who arrived in May from Mexico face new exploitative H-2A rules cutting their wages, not to mention the threat…
The MARA Act
Would Open our Oceans to the Harms of Factory Farming By Ryan Nebeker Proponents of fish farming say it’s the most sustainable way to meet the protein needs of a growing world population. But people…
Bolivia’s General Strike
Against Right-Wing Regime By Olivia Arigho-Stiles “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land…