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It's been forty years since food activism became a global phenomenon, and the social and environmental goals of the movement are more pressing than ever.

The traditional labor movement is hitting roadblocks trying to organize farmworkers. But campaigns that push the bounds of union organizing are finding success, on and off the farm.

Twelve major events in the evolution of the food movement.

Cherries

Why is there hunger in a world that can feed itself—and how can we solve it?

The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities

Forty years after food activism took off around the globe, corporatism is stronger than ever.  But so is the grassroots push for control over our work, land, and seeds.

People carrying wheat flour in Pakistan

A truly democratic food system will need to rewrite the rules of our financial system.

Farmers in India

The biggest threat we face is the control of seed and food moving into a few corporate hands.

Food bank

Food is a good place to start to make change—but it’s only a start.

Farm workers in Florida

As the food movement has discovered, winning over the media, or even the president, is not enough.

As Zambia’s experience shows, solving hunger is not just about growing more food.

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Twelve major events in the evolution of the food movement.

September 17, 2011

Jobs are not jobs unless workers can live off of their wages in a way that does not trap them in eternal poverty.

August 8, 2011

South Florida is a terrible place to grow tomatoes—or to work in the tomato fields.

July 27, 2011

The United Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss the devastating famine in the horn of Africa.

July 22, 2011

 More than twenty anti-hunger activists in Orlando, Florida have been arrested for providing meals for the working poor. 

June 27, 2011

SNAP—the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—is one of the strongest threads in our increasingly tattered safety net. But Gingrich started taking whacks at the program in 1995, and now his House Republican descendants are doing the same.

May 18, 2011
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