In Sudan, "in the Gezira, farmers and agricultural workers have been organizing [for] a food sovereign future". Excellent analysis by Nisrin Elamin transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Amid the horrors of police killings in Rio, Timo Bartholl shares some hope: food sovereignty in the favelas. Yet another reason, if you don't yet, to subscribe to PI's The Internationalist. act.progressive.international/the-internat...

Kerala has eradicated extreme poverty in a country with the greatest number of extremely poor people. But "poverty is continually being created and recreated under the institutions of capitalism." So after Kerala's win, what next? www.thenewsminute.com/voices/the-p...

V pleased to have hosted the Family Farm Defender's podcast: Feeding the World? Or just the world's CAFOs? The State of Agricultural Trade conversation with Karen Hansen-Kuhn & Jim Goodman

African faith leaders demand reparations from Gates Foundation over industrial farming harm mg.co.za/the-green-gu...

Systems Change Now or Never - A note from the Third Nyéléni Global Forum https://rajpatel.org/2025/11/05/systems-change-now-or-never-a-note-from-the-third-nyeleni-global-forum/

Systems Change Now or Never: a short note from La Via Campesina's Third Nyéléni Global Forum, to which I was honoured to be invited. progressive.international/wire/2025-11...

Fixing Food Systems Will Take More than Good Intentions - V sensible thoughts from IPES-Food heavyweights Shalmali Guttal, Sofia Monsalve and Pat Mooney foodtank.com/news/2025/10...

Bodega association now supports NYC city-run grocery - another sign that the Mamdani campaign knows how to build a coalition www.supermarketnews.com/food-accessi...

Roasting the Planet, a new Foodrise/Greenpeace/IATP/Friends of the Earth collab on meat + GHGs is packed with indictments, principally against JBS. Must read. foodrise.org.uk/wp-content/u...

We Are Still Not Counted As Human – an interview with S'bu Zikode, explains everything you need to know about how the largest post-apartheid movement in South Africa formed. darajapress.com/publication/...

If you've not come across Debal Deb's work to save traditional rice varieties, this 20 min doc, beautifully shot by Jason Taylor, is a fine intro vimeo.com/1078366025/a...

Maya Meredith has excellent advice for ground-level organizing gleaned through her work on the Mamdani campaign. hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Mamdani’s Ideas Have Been Tried Before — and Worked www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Where do you get your nutritional misinformation? Rooted Research Collective has a v helpful typology of doctors, rebels, hustlers and more. Great resource for bullshit-detection. rootedresearch.co/publications...

Texas fought for slavery, twice, to make cotton farming profitable. Now, reports the Texas Monthly, TX cotton may finally be finished.... www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I had a wonderful conversation with my fellow IPES-Food panelist and longtime friend and comrade Million Belay on the future of African Agriculture. Listen to them all here: www.youtube.com/@BFAAPOD

How the G20 Could Help Eliminate Global Hunger - some ideas penned with Refiloe Joala www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/s...

See you in Austin on Oct 16, on World Food Day: A Fundraiser for famine in Gaza and Sudan www.connecther.org/donations/ga...

Join me in Austin on World Food Day, Oct 16, for a Fundraiser for Gaza and Sudan, w/ the Viva Palestina Orchestra www.connecther.org/donations/ga...

I've not come across The Elephant before, but there are stories here I've seen nowhere else, e.g. Seeds of Discontent: Kenya’s Seed Law Undermines Farmers’ Resilience www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...

Arianna Tozzi and Enid Still's ethnography of Natural Farming is a brilliant reminder that, even in the most complex agroecological systems, ideas of purity always creep in. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I learned a great deal from this deep dive into the world's most popular bird, the Ross 308. It's paywalled, but Bloomberg's food reporting is excellent. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The human cost of healthy eating: Some recommended US diets carry higher risk of forced labor in food supply chains phys.org/news/2025-10...

Posting a few thoughts on labour + food:1. Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...

RISING UP TOGETHER – Uniting climate movements with farmer and peasant struggles at COP30 Incl ActionAid, IPES-Food, La Via Campesina, the World March of Women, and the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30. 🗓️ Thursday 9 October 🕒 15:00 CEST | 1 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Federal SNAP cuts will upend state budgets. Yes, the scale in the graph goes up to 775%, but it's worth looking at absolute $ figures too. www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-... h/t GroceryNerd

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring. The reliably good Bloomberg Green connects the dots between AI and the war on the poor www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Tucked into the Appropriations Bill is a limit on the right to sue pesticide manufacturers for harm. As always, Carey Gillam has the details. www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/in-w...

ICYMI, on Saturday the USDA cancelled its food security survey. I'm certain there are depths of stupidity left to plumb, but ignorance about hunger has yet to be proven a path to ending it.

If you just missed the webinar, there's a fantastic trove of data on the Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming trials in Zambia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Philippines and India at naturalfarming.global

Judith Butler on being denied due process by the U of California, Berkeley, once a bastion of free speech.

Zohran Mamdani thinks access to healthy food should be a public good. RFK JR.'s MAHA coalition thinks it’s a matter of personal responsibility. @rajpatel.org on our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness:

What's the opposite of MAHA? Mamadani. Here are some thoughts in the Boston Review on the fight for food as a public good. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...

The Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming team and the good folk at the Kasisi Agricultural Centre in Zambia have some *very* exciting results from their trials. Can't say much more, but it'll be a gamechanger. events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...

Very much enjoying Alex Hefron's thoughts on Democratic Supermarketism, and a reminder of the global purchase of the public supply chain discussion. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

Each of these wonderful books will crack open your world, and make it better. Find them in your local bookstore and watch this space for news of the shortlist (we announce on Oct 7th) www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a Nyéléni Forum. This year, it's in Sri Lanka, with deep questions about trade, solidarity, food, justice and land on the table. Follow along here viacampesina.org/en/nyeleni-g...

Mark Bittman’s new restaurant doesn’t plan to make money: it's doing so much more. A public restaurant in NYC. Opening this month. And I'm so proud to be on the advisory board. www.fastcompany.com/91388531/mar...

ANC Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi channels Stephen Miller: "the majority of people living in shack settlements are people that are not documented in our country....we are going to destroy those informal settlements.” Abahlali baseMjondolo begs to differ: www.enca.com/opinion/abah...

The IPC data on famine in Gaza is utterly horrifying. Don't look away. www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

On Weds Aug 27, 2025, 12h00 UTC, Olivier De Schutter, Caroline Peters, Nangamso Ka NomaHlubi Koza and I will be talking about how the South African presidency of the G20 might support food sovereignty. Join us! bit.ly/4mbiwmR

In 2022, a few days after Lindokuhle Mnguni was assassinated, the VK Rasmussen Foundation called for ways to build leadership in 'the polycrisis'. Three years, many meetings. and five movements have produced these brilliant materials. www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Utsa Patnaik gives the lie to India's dodgy hunger data in her latest. Key question 'how can poverty have declined when hunger has increased?' thewire.in/economy/usin...

Three years and a movement: how farmers defeated the land grab by India’s Karnataka state peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/19/t...

Against some seriously vile xenophobia from Operation Dudula today comes one of the most beautiful statements of international solidarity I've come across in a long time, from Thapelo Mohapi at Abahlali baseMjondolo.https://buff.ly/YKlenQx buff.ly/mPohXq4

Abahlali baseMjondolo humiliated the Operation Dudula xenophobes on the streets of Johannesburg today abahlali.org/node/18479/ Proud moment of counter-hegemonic movement building.

Kudos to Ben Iuliano, Adam Calo, Maywa Montenegro de Wit and Adam Calo from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective for ending the Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” in Spectre spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...