Government Shutdown is a Crisis for the Right, and Could Be an Opportunity for Small Farmers
It’s an old saying that within every crisis there is opportunity. Recently, journalists have taken to quoting former White-House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s statement that “You never let...
The Monsanto Protection Act – We’re Happy to See It Go!
Food justice activists won a victory this week as the United States Senate voted not to extend the “Monsanto Protection #8221; The act is set to expire on September...
What About Food For People? – the US Farm Bill and the Rural Economy
Conservative Republicans in the US House of Representatives remain unconcerned with the needs of the American people as they argue to split the Farm Bill in two. They are...
The Green Revolution Changed the Way the World Thinks about Agriculture, to Rely Exclusively on Chemical Inputs
When the Green Revolution spread from the to the Third World in the 1960s and 70s, it also spread a paradigm for thinking about agriculture. This paradigm excluded...
Keep Your Eyes on the House – Farm Bill 2013
This week, the House of representatives will be debating the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013. The bill is the latest of the bills passed...
The Legacy of Hugo Chávez and Issues of Food Sovereignty
The response of the US mainstream media to the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was overwhelmingly bitter last magazine called him a “demagogue” who displayed “reckless and...
Something P. Sainath Missed
In his most recent column in the Hindu, journalist and activist P. Sainath wrote about the challenges facing Chris Pawelski, a farmer who lives 50 miles upstate from New...
Learning from China’s Mistakes
Photo Source: Morning Whistle In a recent article published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, a perceptive analysis by the Sociologist Michael Levien looks at the effect on rural...
Thinking About Crisis: Talking About Solutions
Since 2008, crisis has been constantly among us, and everywhere we go it is being proclaimed by all. Europe, the United States and others are facing continued economic crisis....
States Supporting Agroecology: UN Special Rapporteur Oliveir de Schutter’s report on the Right to Food
As Mark Hertsgaard’s Op-Ed in the New York Times Thursday, September 13th explained, the US House of Representatives is in legislative gridlock, failing to come to any agreement that...