The Philippine government has sold the land of thousands of indigenous peasants to a foreign company who plans to build a palm oil plantation

Yesterday the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and publisher of Colorlines.com, released “Good Food and Good Jobs for All: Challenges and Opportunities to Advance Racial and Economic Equity in the Food System.” Part of a series on food justice and race, the report makes recommendations on how the labor movement and the food justice movement— which journalist

Tomorrow, the House Agriculture Committee will vote on a Farm Bill proposal that cuts SNAP food assistance for struggling families by over $16 billion. Call your Representative today to oppose these deep cuts!

Celebrate “Food Independence Day"! Food activists around the country (and of all ages!) are declaring their food independence by working together to revitalize their community's food system. How are you declaring your food independence today? (Photo by Joshua Kristal)

Continuing our reports from the UN Rio +20 sustainable development summit last week… Dr. Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, speaks on agroecology, hunger, global action, and social movements at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Dr. Altieri is a leading scholar of ecological agriculture or "agroecology," conducting