Fair trade was founded on the principle of solidarity: uniting farmers, workers, and activist consumers in a joint effort to […]
Ryan Zinn is Fair World Project’s Political Director. He has been involved in the food justice movement at home and abroad for over twenty years, including work with such organizations as the Center for International Environmental Law, Friends of the Earth – Paraguay, Global Exchange and the Organic Consumer Association. He is also co-founder of Grow Ahead, a crowdfunding initiative that supports small-scale farmers in addressing the challenges of climate change in their communities.
How Farmer-to-Farmer Trainings Are Spreading New Solutions to Climate Change In the fall of 2017, Grow Ahead, a partner of […]
The climate is changing, and our industrial food and farming system plays a big role in that. Over the past […]
As a child, you likely heard some variation of the cliché, “Eat all your food; there are starving people in […]
A Tribute to the Work of Berta Cáceres, Indigenous Rights Leader Berta Cáceres was murdered in her home on March […]
The industrial food system is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Industrial agriculture practices like Concentrated Animal […]
The perils of ingesting food that has any contact with a Monsanto-produced product are in the news on nearly a […]
“Agroecology is political; it requires us to challenge and transform structures of power in society. We need to put the […]
2014 marked the United Nation’s International Year of Family Farming. Numerous activities and actions were carried out, promoting the critical […]