Op-ed: Public Grocery Stores Already Exist and Work Well. We Need More. Government-run, nonprofit grocery systems can better respond to food-price inflation, corporate consolidation, and inequality.

Important read by the inimitable @grocerynerd.bsky.social and @rajpatel.org !

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Libreria CLACSO Globalizando la esperanza

Agroecología e internacionalismo campesino de Cuba a Mozambiques

Educación popular campesina y reforma agraria YouTube video by Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

Educación popular campesina y reforma agraria

The unrealized potential of agroforestry for an emissions-intensive agricultural commodity - Nature Sustainability Western Africa is one of the world’s largest cocoa-producing regions, with just two countries supplying up to 60% of global production, but at a high carbon cost. Incorporating shade trees into cocoa ...

Despite the benefits of agroforestry, cocoa landscapes in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire remain dominated by full-sun and low-shade systems.

Average shade-tree cover is just 13%, far below the 20–40% recommended for climate resilience.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Agroforestry #Cocoa #ClimateAction

The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.

This week we have members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective ( @adamcalo.bsky.social , Maywa Montenegro de Wit , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social ) taking on the productivist roots of the "feed-the-world" approach to food security.

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The fantasy of feeding the world persists because it's convenient to the status quo. It weaponizes #globalhunger to silence the voices of agrarian change. It has been a powerful ideological tool in capitalists’ efforts to maintain and extend control over nature and subaltern humans. #agroecology

FarmSTAND branded graphic. A photograph of blue stanchions that say "immigration." Text reading "On the blog: How Big Ag Thrives on Trump Immigration Threats."

Big Ag won’t stand up for its workers—only for its profits. These powerful corporations don’t mind a scared, exploitable labor force. In fact, they count on it. farmstand.org/how-big-ag-t...

Color me shocked!

There is no “waste” in the cocoa production process. Cocoa mucilage, husks, etc., generally remain on farm and recycle nutrients. This is greenwashing.

Can pension systems be part of the fight for food sovereignty? Most workers—especially those who feed us—lack retirement security. Farmers, farmworkers, fishers & food vendors often get little to nothing. But some countries offer hope. Food sovereignty must m...

Can pension systems be part of the fight for food sovereignty?

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

ICE recently conducted a raid of farm workers, seemingly focused on pro-union worker leaders.

On Friday in New York the federal agents stopped a bus and, armed with a list, appeared to single out those who have been doing union organizing for years.

theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

Unlearning the green revolution: Inventory of agroecological practices in Ceará, Brazil, an instrument for decolonizing territory and (re)valuing peasant knowledge In this article we discuss the use of an inventory or mapping of agroecological practices, part of the "Peasant to Peasant" (PtP) methodology that is used to promote the territorialization o...

Unlearning the green revolution: Inventory of agroecological practices in Ceará, Brazil, an instrument for decolonizing territory and (re)valuing peasant knowledge

The Climate Movement Should Become a Human Movement It needs to tap into our emotional life in ways that will link us to material struggles rather than distract us from them.

"And the conversations became technical. The biggest, the most emotional debate in climate over the IRA was over permitting reform...How’s an everyday person getting tapped into that?"

- Rhiana Gunn-Wright for @hammerandhope.bsky.social
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Online today @thenation.com (and I think, on the cover of the physical magazine soon) - a story I began writing in 2023. O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST):

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

New York City Voters Support Municipal Grocery Stores - Climate and Community Institute Read our Substack piece on why municipal grocery stores can bring down costs and repair food supply chains.  The rising cost of groceries has driven nearly 50 …

Two-Thirds of New York City Voters Support Creating Municipal Grocery Stores.

Black farmers face setbacks over Trump budget cuts: ‘We are in survival mode’ A consortium of Black farmers in the north-east take financial hits as harsh USDA cuts threaten their operations

Black farmers face setbacks over Trump budget cuts: ‘We are in survival mode’

URGENT: Protect Organic Farmers & the USDA National Organic Program! secure.everyaction.com/fbcVkGhVJEyo...

From Forgotten Plots to Collective Economy: A Rural Women's Community Model in Honduras - Groundswell International A group of rural women in Honduras transformed a neglected plot of land into a thriving community-led initiative, overcoming cultural and structural barriers to strengthen food sovereignty, empower wo...

We hear a lot about problems in farming and #foodsystems, but what about solutions?

Have you seen #agroecology in action? A farmer reclaiming land, a community building #foodsovereignty, a method that works? Share a story that gives you #hope. Here's one that made our week start on a good note 👇

Trump Cuts Could Squeeze Small Farmers and Food Banks Promising a return to “fiscally responsible initiatives,” the Agriculture Department ended two Biden-era programs that paid farmers to provide food to schools and low-income families.

Trump Admin says it wants farmers to grow more for US market & healthier food. Then, pulls rug from under farmers.

“To get notice on a Friday afternoon, with no forewarning. It’s already late in the season. Farmers have already started preparing for those sales" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/b...

Cultural fire is the Washoe Tribe’s answer to beat back climate-fueled wildfires In the Western U.S., extreme wildfires are damaging tribal lands. Climate change has only made the situation more dire. That’s why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is working to reintroduce i...

“The possibilities and the opportunity and what the future holds seems so much brighter.” www.kuer.org/science-envi...

Agricultura de carbono: vender humo no enfriará al planeta Las corporaciones promueven la controvertida “agricultura de carbono” para evitar disminuir sus propias emisiones. Los proyectos se ubican en grandes fincas en Norte América, Europa y Brasil, y tambié...

Agricultura de carbono: vender humo no enfriará al planeta

From the Past to the Future (SSIR) How philanthropy can help build a more resilient and equitable food system through agroecology

#agroecology From the Past to the Future

This Colombian 'hotel for cows' could help reduce deforestation in the Amazon Clearing land for cattle and cows is the single biggest driver of rainforest loss in the Amazon. This "hotel for cows" in Colombia offers a solution.

I sent numerous tips about #agroecolgy & #agroforestry to NPR's climate solutions reporter late last year saying these are worth covering -- turns out she was perhaps reading my messages 🙌

She produced a terrific feature on #silvopasture in Colombia & it's airing across the US today, listen here:

Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely

Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

Black farmers among those left in limbo amid federal funding freeze The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting ...

The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump administration presents yet another hurdle to those who have spent decades fighting for equity in farming.

Moving from anti-globalisation to anti-imperialism and why it matters for food sovereignty Why the international movement for food sovereignty needs to move away from thinking about globalisation and towards thinking about (and acting against) imperialism.

Moving from anti-globalisation to anti-imperialism and why it matters for food sovereignty

Why climate philanthropy must increase funding to grassroots agroecology movements - Alliance magazine Constructing climate-friendly, healthy food systems that are good for the planet and people remains one of humanity’s great challenges. The ‘modern’ food systems put in place over the past century –…

Given the current global financing situation, there is a need to invert the trend!

"It’s imperative that we see a massive increase in financial investments in climate and food systems transformation."

👉Read the Op-Ed (2024) by ⁦Agroecology Fund co-Director Daniel Moss

The climate crises in Los Angeles and the Amazon rainforest are inextricably linked | Opinion “As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in Southern California.”

The climate crises in Los Angeles and the Amazon rainforest are inextricably linked

How MAHA poisons the food movement RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.

New from me: how the Dems' lame farm policy left a gaping hole through which the odious RFK Jr has lurched, mashing up dangerous nonsense about vaccines with (some) legit critiques of food and farm policy. www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...