Food and Agriculture

Organic Regenerative Agriculture Can Ease World Hunger

October 17, 2015 Staff, www.regenerationinternational.org Educate! Food and Agriculture

By Staff of Regeneration International - WASHINGTON D.C. — The nonprofit organization Regeneration International will hold a press conference today at 9 a.m. at the National Press Club, titled “The Future of Food: From Degeneration to Regeneration.” A panel of 10 international experts on organic agriculture, carbon sequestration and world hunger will speak to the capacity of organic regenerative agriculture to draw excess carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in soil; how regenerative agriculture provides livelihoods for farmers, revitalizes local economies, and produces abundant food for populations most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change.

Activists Prepare for 2015 Food Justice March at Nation’s Capitol

October 14, 2015 Nick Meyer, www.march-against-monsanto.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

By Nick Meyer for March Agaisnt Monsanto - The Monsanto Company has thrived in large part due to their secrecy, and our ignorance (fueled by willful media ignorance, of course). But in 2015 more people than ever before are waking up, and standing up, to the Monsanto machine, resulting in what may have been the most difficult year in their long, sordid history. This year alone, Monsanto has been reeling from the following events and developments: Roundup Causes Cancer, WHO Shows- According to the World Health Organization, Monsanto’s flagship, best-selling weedkiller, Roundup, is a “probable human carcinogen.”

Feeding A New Economy: Local Food Systems In The South

October 12, 2015 Staff, www.mrbf.org Create! Food and Agriculture

By Staff of MRBF - The local foods movement has become much more than a short-lived dietary or environmental trend. Can it actually fuel the new Southern economy? The term “locavore” has become ubiquitous since appearing in the American vernacular about ten years ago. It represents a rapidly growing movement of people choosing locally produced food rather than packaged goods that traveled hundreds of miles to market. Last year, the local-food economy was valued at nearly $12 billion. According to the Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers markets rose 76 percent from 2008 to 2014. Direct-to-consumer food sales increased threefold between 1992 and 2007, twice as fast as overall agricultural sales.

Newsletter: Rigged Trade Negotiations Struggle

October 4, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Canada, Climate Change, Democracy, Environment, European Union (EU), Food and Agriculture, Healthcare, Jobs, Privatization, TTIP, TTP

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. For those concerned about corporate power vs. democracy; jobs, the environment, healthcare, food, water, energy, regulation of banks and more – all eyes were on Atlanta this week where 12 nations were negotiating the massive trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The Atlanta meetings come after more than five years of secret negotiations, secret to the public, media and elected representatives but not to transnational corporations. No matter how Atlanta turns out, we are winning and can finish the job. Our goal: end corporate rigged trade and force governments to re-make trade with a goal of putting people and planet first and doing so by negotiating agreements with transparency so the people can participate.

Agroecology, Not ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’

September 29, 2015 Institute of Science in Society, www.i-sis.org.uk Educate! Agroecology, Climate Change, Food and Agriculture

By Institute of Science in Society - We, the undersigned, belong to civil society organizations including social movements, peasants/farmers organizations and faith-based organizations from around the world. We are working to tackle the impacts of climate change that are already disrupting farming and food systems and threatening the food and nutrition security of millions of individuals. As we move towards COP21 in Paris, we welcome a growing recognition of the urgent need to adapt food systems to a changing climate, and the key role of agroecology within a food and seed sovereignty framework in achieving this, while contributing to mitigation through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, despite these promising signals, we share deep concerns about the growing influence and agenda of so-called “Climate-Smart Agriculture” (CSA) and the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA). Climate change is the biggest and the most urgent threat our societies face.

Russia Completely Bans GMOs In Food Production

September 28, 2015 Amanda Froelich, www.trueactivist.com Create! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Russia

By Amanda Froelich in True Activist - Victory! Following news of Scotland and Germany opting to ban genetically modified foods, news has surfaced of the Russian Government completely banning the use of genetically modified ingredients in any and all food production. During an international conference on biotechnology, Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich stated: “As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions.” Basically, Russia flew past the issue of GMO labeling and shut down the use of any and all genetically modified foods that would have otherwise entered the food supply through packaged foods (and the cultivation of GMO crops). For anti-GMO proponents, this is huge, exciting news. To put the bold move into perspective, imagine what effect this would have in the United States.

Break-Fast. Literally.

September 26, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.artkillingapathy.com Resist! Environment, FERC, Food and Agriculture, Hunger Strike, Sharing Economy

By Eleanor Goldfield in Art Killing Apathy - This morning, activists with Beyond Extreme Energy plus partnering groups and individuals broke their 18 day fast outside of FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). Their fast represents a ramp up of action aimed at FERC’s wild disregard for people or planet. At the event, activists, fasters, faith leaders, and people from fracked communities came up to share their stories, their experiences and offer up inspiration for a continued fight against big oil and gas and their bought off agencies. People sang, played, danced, marched and literally broke bread with each other.

Monsanto’s Documents Reveal Truth Of Toxicological Dangers

September 25, 2015 Richard Gale and Gary Null in Organic Consumers, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto, Public Health

By Richard Gale and Gary Null in Organic Consumers - Over the years a large body of independent research has accumulated and now collectively provides a sound scientific rationale to confirm that glyphosate is far more toxic and poses more serious health risks to animals and humans than Monsanto and the US government admit. Among the many diseases and health conditions non-industry studies identified Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and autism since Roundup has been shown to instigate aluminum accumulation in the brain. The herbicide has been responsible for reproductive problems such as infertility, miscarriages, and neural tube and birth defects. It is a causal agent for a variety of cancers: brain, breast, prostate, lung and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Other disorders include chronic kidney and liver diseases, diabetes, heart disease, hypothyroidism, and leaky gut syndrome.

Lakeland Students: “Won’t Let This Happen In Publix’s Hometown!”

September 23, 2015 Coalition of Immokalee Workers, www.ciw-online.org Resist! Farmworkers, Florida, Food and Agriculture, Social Change, Student Activism

By Coalition of Immokalee Workers - This past Thursday, in a classroom just miles from Fair Food holdout Publix’s corporate headquarters in Lakeland, FL, a crowd of over sixty Southeastern University students, professors, staff, and Lakeland community members gathered to learn about the CIW’s groundbreaking work for farmworker justice and of the shameful, six-year refusal of their hometown supermarket, Publix, to join the CIW’s Fair Food Program. The began the evening with a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary “Food Chains“. Lakelanders’ response to the film was strong and clear: excitement at the tremendous gains of the CIW, and dismay that their hometown grocer has refused to take responsibility for farmworker exploitation in its supply chain.

Mayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law In Guatemala

September 23, 2015 Christin Sandberg, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Guatemala, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Monsanto, Social Movements

By Christin Sandberg in Intercontinental Cry - On September 4th, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan territory, groups of indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when congress finally repealed the legislation that had been approved in June. The demonstrations were concentrated outside the Congress and Constitutional Court in Guatemala City during more than a week, and coincided with several Mayan communities and organizations defending food sovereignty through court injunctions in order to stop the Congress and the President, Otto Perez Molina, from letting the new law on protection of plant varieties, known as the “Monsanto Law”, take effect.

The Radical Roots Of The Great Grape Strike

September 23, 2015 David Bacon, www.davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com Resist! Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, History

By David Bacon - Fifty years ago the great grape strike started in Delano, when Filipino pickers walked out of the fields on September 8, 1965. Mexican workers joined them two weeks later. The strike went on for five years, until all California table grape growers were forced to sign contracts in 1970. The strike was a watershed struggle for civil and labor rights, supported by millions of people across the country. It helped breathe new life into the labor movement, opening doors for immigrants and people of color. Beyond the fields, Chicano and Asian American communities were inspired to demand rights, and many activists in those communities became organizers and leaders themselves. California's politics have changed profoundly in 50 years. Delano's mayor today is a Filipino. That would have been unthinkable in 1965, when growers treated the town as a plantation.

South Minneapolis Creates Free Organic Market

September 20, 2015 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Create! Food and Agriculture, health, Organic, Urban Agriculture

By Unicorn Riot. Minneapolis, MN - The project itself began as conversations over a backyard fire pit where people came up with the idea to teach people to grow food, and through that process give food away for free. The project gives families classes with a master gardener and the resources to make a raised garden and help with installation. The agreement between the twenty participating families and the project was to give 3 small harvests a season to the free farmers market. The harvests are moved by a food cart created as part of volunteers dreamed up to make it all sustainable. That cart now pulled up to the various gardens driven by volunteers who gathered the food to give away for free at the market.

USDA: Sales From Organic U.S. Farms Reached $5.5 Bln

September 19, 2015 Tom Polansek, www.reuters.com Educate! Farm, Food and Agriculture, Organic

By Tom Polansek in Reuters - Sales from organic U.S. farms reached $5.5 billion last year, a 72 percent increase from 2008, the U.S. Agriculture Department said in a report on Thursday that highlighted the consumer trend toward such products. The USDA data, compiled through farmer surveys, showed that milk was the top organic commodity in 2014 with sales of about $1.1 billion. Sales of organic eggs, which are laid by hens raised without cages, totaled $420 million. Demand for organic foods, from fruits and vegetables to meat and grains, has risen steadily in the past decade as shoppers have become more concerned about genetically modified products, as well as chemicals used in the food chain. "We need a higher rate of growth in order to get close to meeting the demand," Laura Batcha, chief of the Organic Trade Association, said after reviewing the sales data.

Maryland Students Share Photos Of Moldy, Under-Cooked Meals

September 16, 2015 Daily Mail, www.dailymail.co.uk Resist! Children, Education, Food and Agriculture, health, Maryland

By Daily Mail - Outraged students have taken to social media to complain about moldy and under-cooked food shared alongside pictures of stomach-churning meals allegedly served by a Maryland school district. Students at Prince George's County Public Schools posted images of half-pink meat patties, sandwiches that had buns containing mold, expired drinks and hollowed out chicken nuggets on Twitter. But the students said the horrid images of the food items are nothing new to their lunch trays, according to FOX 5. 'Criminals are getting better food than we are,' Tamera Perry, a senior student at Friendly High School in Fort Washington, told FOX 5. 'You're giving us something that's not healthy, that can possible cause us to die and it's just unacceptable.'

In US Up To 90% Could Be Fed Entirely Locally

September 14, 2015 Lorena Anderson, www.phys.org Create! Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture

By Lorena Anderson in Phys - New farmland-mapping research published today (June 1) shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes. Professor Elliott Campbell, with the University of California, Merced, School of Engineering, discusses the possibilities in a study entitled "The Large Potential of Local Croplands to Meet Food Demand in the United States." The research results are the cover story of the newest edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the flagship journal for the Ecological Society of America, which boasts a membership of 10,000 scientists.

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