Something is fundamentally wrong in the food supply chain. More and more people are going hungry and applying for food assistance. Meanwhile, farmers are dumping milk and eggs and plowing under their fields. Major food buyers like schools, hotels and restaurants have shut down, leaving nowhere for the food to go. This is the largest […]
By Liz Carlisle This opinion piece was originally published by Yes! Magazine on March 30, 2020. As the coronavirus crisis has laid bare, the U.S. urgently needs a strategic plan for farmland. The very lands we need to ensure community food security and resilience in the face of crises like this pandemic and climate change […]
In many parts of the U.S., family farms are disappearing and being replaced by suburban sprawl. “Our estimates are that farmland loss is occurring at an alarming 175 acres per hour,” says Jennifer Moore Kucera of the American Farmland Trust. Listen here: But Kucera says when farmland is lost to development, it significantly reduces the […]
By Elizabeth Henderson Farmworkers, farmers and their organizations around the country have been singing the same tune for years on the urgent need for immigration reform. That harmony turns to discord as soon as you get down to details on how to get it done, what to include and what compromises you are willing to […]
Not many restaurants will be able to survive coronavirus, and this is a personal, social and national tragedy. I’m worried about farmers markets too. Researchers say that the cost of coronavirus to farm-to-consumer programs could go well into the billions. I believe it. Now is the time to support your local farmers. California has ruled […]
Farmworkers feed the world. This is the rallying cry of the Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), an organization that works with students, advocates, and farmworkers across the United States to create a more just agricultural system. The crucial contribution that farmworkers make to the food system has only heightened amid the C0VID-19 pandemic, as farmworkers […]
A jury in Missouri awarded a farmer $265 million in a lawsuit that claimed Bayer and BASF’s weedkiller destroyed his peach orchard, as Reuters reported. The lawsuit is ominous for Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018 and now faces nearly 140 similar lawsuits in U.S. courts, plus thousands of other suits that claim health damage […]
Organic farmers in Africa face an arduous journey getting cropland certified, limiting exports and frustrating farmers who say ecological practices could increase food security while protecting the land. Just 2 percent of Africa’s farmland is considered organic — seven times less than the global average, according to data from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture […]
By John R. Platt It starts with the whiff of death. High above the Argentinian plains, an Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) — one of the world’s largest flying bird species — catches the distinctive aroma of decaying flesh on the wind. It’s quickly joined by other condors, perhaps a dozen or more, who start circling […]
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