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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…



Corporate Ag Brings Global Risks

What happens when the world’s breadbaskets start failing simultaneously? By Ekamjot Dhillon Agriculture today is a massive, globally interconnected industry. That interconnectivity has brought jobs and varied foods to people who might not otherwise be…


Rooted in Resistance

Territories for Climate Justice By Nyeleni Agrarian reform and redistribution must be at the heart of climate policies Placing land and territories under the control of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and rural communities is…


Yaoundé Declaration

The WTO and Free Trade Cause Hunger, Poverty and Inequality By La Via Campesina A new trade framework based on food sovereignty is urgent and necessary! For nearly thirty years the establishment of the World…


Regenerative Agriculture in Africa

Farmers adopt food sovereignty practices amid global instability By Kate Schecter The US and Israel’s attack on Iran has led to significant price increases on fuel. Oil and gas capture the headlines. But fertilizer prices…