To talk about food is to face with sober senses our real conditions of life. Everyone needs to eat; yet, some savor the extravagant, some struggle to put food on the table, while others starve. Consider the fact that 10 percent of the...
Volume 25, no. 1
The Soil and the Worker
Spring 2022
“Living in the afterlife of slavery means living on the planetary afterlife of the plantation.” Attempting to elucidate the racial logic of environmental crises, Justin Davis traced his own ancestry and provided historiographic accounts of...
Following the line of revolutionary thought from Mao, Fanon, and Cabral, Slaheddine El-Amami saw science and technology as key to national liberation: not only delinking from imperialist control of production, but ecological development...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
El pueblo venezolano le ha demostrado al mundo su capacidad de resistencia, en defensa de la soberanía nacional y su manera digna de persistir y avanzar en diferentes frentes socio-productivos.
The Arab Spring had an agrarian root, borne out of struggles for food security. Ayeb's and Bush's outstanding work captures this link and steers our imagination and action toward food sovereignty.
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.
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.
The 2021 documentary directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper recaptures the revolutionary agency of the oppressed, and sends a message of urgency, solidarity, and hope in our present conjuncture.
While missing in concrete strategy to build power, Half-Earth Socialism provides a utopian plan that invites readers to imagine how socialism would work to save humanity from ecological collapse.
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