As the dairy industry in the United States consolidated, this case study of Vermont reveals structural obstacles that we must overcome in the transition to regenerative agriculture as responses to climate change.
Category - Vol25-1 The Soil and Worker
The book connects, across a long timeframe, social movements of Black farmers to access land, knowledge, and materials to create farms and farming communities in the face of white supremacy.
UAWC works to empower Palestinian farmers, reinforce their steadfastness (sumud) on the land, and to achieve food sovereignty. They are recently targeted by Israeli occupation and Zionist forces in the West.
Palestinian youths today are paving the way toward establishing food sovereignty and reducing dependence on the products and employment of the occupation. They uphold their values and principles through a cooperative organizational model...
Mass farmer suicides in India driven by economic deprivation were examined through the stories of families trying to survive in the aftermath. However, Kota Neelima saw the widows as victims rather than revolutionary agents.
Terracing campaigns in Mao-era China, exemplified by “Dazhai,” highlight efforts to conserve the soil, and offer an important lesson on the relationship of labor, Indigenous knowledge, and science.
Monsanto and Bayer, with tacit support from the scientific establishment, continue to ignore the serious hazard of glyphosate, the active ingredient of the Roundup weedkiller. The left discourse on GMO and capitalist agriculture must not...
El caso de los Zapatistas es el caso de muchas comunidades indígenas que están incesantemente combatiendo la degradación ambiental a causa de las secuelas del coloniaje y el avance del neoliberalismo. Sus prácticas agrícolas ofrecen una...
The case of the Zapatistas is one of many Indigenous communities that are adamantly combating environmental degradation caused by the remnants of colonialism and the rise of neoliberalism. Their agricultural practices offer a lesson of...
We sat down with Daniel Maingi, Programs Manager at Growth Partners Africa and Coordinator of the Kenya Food Rights Alliance, to discuss the impact of the Gates Foundation on African agriculture, smallholder farmers, and food sovereignty.