Introduction On Thursday, February 25, CAGJ’s AGRA Watch campaign hosted a webinar in response to Bill Gates’ recently released book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster to unpack the role of Gates in contributing to the global climate crisis through his promotion of industrial agriculture. For more context, you can view our 4-part infographic series […]
Call to Action: Oppose the Cap and Trade Senate Bill 5126 in solidarity with Got Green
Artwork from Got Green, a solidarity partner of CAGJ’s Food Justice Project. Blog post by Food Justice Project Intern Fotima Ibrokhim Sign to oppose Senate Bill 5126! Demand a real reduction in pollution and address the root causes of the climate crisis. The SB 5126 (Washington Climate Commitment Act) will create a cap-and-invest system, also […]
THURS 2/25 Webinar: Billionaire or Community Solutions to Climate Chaos?
YOU ARE INVITED! FREE EVENT THURS FEB 25, 10 – 11:30am PST | 1 – 2:30pm EST | 7 – 8:30pm CET | 8 – 9:30pm CAT via Zoom Registration is required: click here. The Zoom link will be emailed the day before the event. Please forward widely and share the Facebook event! Community Alliance for Global […]
We Stand in Solidarity with Indian Farmers: Speech
Remarks by Heather Day, Director of CAGJ, at India Solidarity Rally On February 6, 2021, a car caravan from Federal Way to Seattle protested repression against India’s farmers by the Modi regime, with a rally following at Westlake Plaza. In the largest strike in history, farmers have been peacefully mobilizing since November against 3 proposed […]
African Civil Society Declaration On The African-European Union Partnership
Blog post by AGRA Watch Intern Connor Nakamura CAGJ recently signed on to a declaration on the African-European Union partnership drafted by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), of which CAGJ became a member in 2018. African civil society organizations previously acknowledged recent EU-driven processes for rural transformation for their focus on “Africa’s […]
CAGJ Joins Clean Greens for Food Justice Youth Workshops
By Lisa Colligan, Food Justice Project Intern Last October, the usual passing of summer to fall was shuffling along; temperatures were cooling, trees were losing their leaves, and gardens were offering up their final harvests. But at Clean Greens Farm and Market, the excitement for food justice was just heating up! Over the course of […]
No Longer the “Wrong Seeds”: Farmer Seed Enterprise
Blog post by Carol Thompson “They called and asked to buy sorghum and millet seeds from us.” This simple statement reversed more than 25 years of derision and outright scorn of the idea that smallholder farmers in Southern Africa could propagate good quality seeds for planting, instead of grain. The decades of public denigration from […]
UN Food System Summit ‘Dialogue” events spark renewed concerns of corporate capture in North American food system and rural economies globally
CAGJ is a proud member of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), an organization that has been closely following the developments of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), scheduled to take place in New York City in September 2021. Below is a letter NFFC drafted regarding the event. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced […]
New Report: A Summit Under Siege! Position Paper on UN Food Systems Summit 2021
Blog post by AGRA Watch Intern Connor Nakamura La Via Campesina (LVC) recently published a position paper criticizing the current trajectory of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS21) set to convene in fall 2021 while emphasizing the importance of creating a holistic, fair conversation around global food systems. LVC has played a significant role […]
Media Release: Disparity to Parity Project Seeks Prosperity for All
Diverse Coalition Calls for Systemic Policy Changes to Ensure Equity Across Our Food System National Family Farm Coalition Press Release; Contact: Lisa Griffith, [email protected], 773-319-5838 December 14, 2020 – Calling for an end to more than 50 years of unjust farm policies and economic disparity, a diverse coalition of family farmers, grassroots advocates, and food system researchers […]
