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...
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...
Land Grabbing, Personal Investment, and What We All Can Do: Part 2
In our recent posts, we have been trying to make visible the connection between personal investment and land-grabbing in places like Mozambique, Brazil, Uganda, Ethiopia and others. Those who...
A farmer’s story
It’s often hard to visualize what a land grab looks like, especially when few of us have traveled to the places where they are taking place. This year, La...