By Chris Iberle, Food Justice Project Co-Chair On May 19-21st, 2011 I had the honor of attending the Community Food Security Coalition’s first policy-focused conference, bringing together food policymakers, food policy council participants, activists from varying sectors of the food movement, farmers, food workers, and experts on food policy for three days of learning and […]
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Advocating for African Farmers
Interview with AGRA Watch Co-chair Janae Choquette! Paul K. Haeder / Down to Earth NW Correspondent For Janae Choquette, it’s a no-brainer to support small-scale agriculture because solutions are local-based and then set into motion through local experts. She’s co-chair of AGRA Watch, a program organized by Seattle’s Community Alliance for Global Justice, which is […]
The Color of Food report released by the Applied Research Center
See The Applied Research Center for more info! “The Color of Food report is a broad survey of the food system, to map out the race, gender and class of workers along the supply chain. The Applied Research Center recently embarked on a broad survey of the food system, to map out the race, gender […]
Seattle Farm Bill Principles Released
City Councilmember Richard Conlin just put out this press release, announcing the City of Seattle 2012 Farm Bill Principles, which CAGJ and many organizations we work with were a part of drafting. A great step in moving towards influencing a Food and Farm Bill in 2012 that supports people and the planet! FOR MORE INFORMATION […]
Call for Submissions to 2nd Edition of “OUR FOOD OUR RIGHT”!
Do you think about the importance of organic agriculture to the American food system? What it means to call someone a ‘foodie’? How food is produced world wide? In November of 2009 CAGJ’s Food Justice Project published “Our Food Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice”, a guide to our current food system. It was received so […]
La Vía Campesina Declaration in Cancun
La Via Campesina’s statement on the COP16 meetings in Cancun No to market-based business deals proposed by the governments of industrialized countries and transnational corporations, the thousands of solutions to the climate crisis are in the hands of the people The members of La Vía Campesina, coming from 29 Mexican states and 36 countries from […]
Act Now or Kiss Your Organics Goodbye!
“After years of bureaucratic wrangling, Secretary Vilsack and the Obama administration are only days away from approving Monsanto’s genetically modified (GMO) alfalfa. If approved, GMO alfalfa will fundamentally undermine the entire organic industry overnight. In addition, the USDA says American consumers don’t care about the contamination of organics. Please join us in calling on Secretary […]
Find a Factory Farm!
As seen on Grist.org, Food & Water Watch has released a new tool looking at the location, concentration, and other statistics of U.S. Factory Farms. They even have a widget you can embed in a website to help push this collection of information out! The information is search able by State, animal type, and Census […]
New report from SPLC, “Injustice on our Plates”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the foremost research and legal civil rights organizations in the US fighting hate and bigotry, has released a new report highliting the role and injustices against immigrant women in the food industry. The profiles, put together from interviews with 150 women, and statistics from a broad range of sources, expose the […]
Coverage of AGRA Watch Press Release
On the event of the COP16 UN Climate Change Conference, and the huge demonstrations outside, AGRA Watch has put out a press release along with La Via Campesina North America calling on the Gates Foundation to support real solutions to hunger and climate change. You can read the whole press release here, and see what other writers […]
