Hunger is already a massive problem across the country. The new federal cuts to food assistance will only make things worse, food bank operators say
The Gulf of Alaska has become one of the world’s most economically productive commercial fisheries. But in Kodiak, Indigenous leaders, community growers, and grassroots food cooperatives are helping neighbors value homegrown produce
Seed keepers are maintaining foodways and building cultural reverence through community networks
Community members rally for the release of two workers who remain detained after the April 21 arrests, which advocates say was the largest immigration enforcement action in Vermont’s recent history
Food production systems that put quality over quantity are considered a revolutionary act by organizers. Decades of federal policy have pushed out young farmers and farmers of color in favor of propping up a few names in the agricultural industry. Corporate control of the food supply chain breeds fallout for
At least two farmworkers died from heat stress this summer in North Carolina, and rumors of other deaths swirled, sparking questions about what happens when migrant workers die working in American fields
The industrialization of tobacco in the U.S. encompasses colonization, slavery, and its latest victim: migrant farmworkers
There is an unbroken line from the economic conditions developed to protect chattel slavery to the legal structures that allow for the abuse and exploitation of migrant farmworkers today
Preservationists hope fiber arts can connect Black Americans to the land and safeguard the future of Black agrarian culture
California’s last drought proved that it can have lasting consequences on farmworkers and BIPOC.
A group of agricultural workers on Long Island has formed New York’s first farmworkers union—a landmark move that was the result of decades of activism.
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