Food Security

Rethinking The Farm Bill: Supporting Farmers Close To Home

May 7, 2026 Emma Nicolas and Jessica Cusworth, Farm Action. Create! Farming, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Local Economy

America’s food system isn’t set up to get food from independent farmers to their communities. Decades of consolidation and underinvestment have left farmers and consumers reliant on long, vulnerable supply chains controlled by a few companies. But the collapse of local and regional food systems wasn’t inevitable—it was the result of deliberate choices, and people are working to change it. We sat down with Benji Ballmer, co-founder of Yellowbird Foodshed in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to discuss what it takes to reconnect farmers with their communities.

The Polycrisis, Worsened By War, Is Devastating Our Global Food System

April 6, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG climate crisis, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Inflation, Wars and Militarism

The US-Israeli war on Iran and the resultant fuel shortages are already negatively-impacting the global economy. One aspect that isn't gaining much attention is the impact of the war on an already fragile food system. Shortages and the rising prices of oil, fertilizer and pesticides are forcing farmers to make difficult choices and will lead to food scarcity this Fall. To understand where we are and what we can do to support food security, Clearing the FOG speaks with Kayla Dones of DD Geopolitics and Lauren Borsheim, a food policy analyst for Food and Water Watch who has been tracking the new Farm Bill legislation.

Naming And Shaming Food Barons

April 2, 2026 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Inflation, Monopolization

Growing up in Northern California, Peet’s was always treated as a local coffee shop. The first location of the chain founded in 1966 was just a 15-minute train ride from my childhood home in the East Bay. Yes, Peet’s had locations across the United States, but it still felt like an alternative to the corporate behemoth of Starbucks. That changed in 2012 when Peet’s was acquired by JAB Holding Company, a secretive firm based in Luxembourg. Peet’s wasn’t the only locally-loved chain integrated into what is now a global empire that sells more coffee than Starbucks.

The Famine Signal: China’s Fertilizer Embargo

March 17, 2026 Kayla Dones, DD Geopolitics. Strategize! China, Famine, Fertilizer, Food and Agriculture, Food Security

China just told its exporters to stop shipping nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends abroad. China is the world’s largest fertilizer producer. When it closes the spigot, the entire planet feels the drought. This is not a supply chain story, this is a food security story. A human impact story, and if you know your history, it is also a story about what happens in the streets when bread becomes a luxury. China’s move did not happen in a vacuum. Since 2021, Beijing has been systematically pulling back fertilizer exports across multiple categories — nitrogen, phosphate, potassium.

Take Back Power Supporters Redistribute Food From Supermarkets

March 15, 2026 The Canary. Resist! Food Banks, Food Security, Mutual Aid, United Kingdom (UK)

Take Back Power supporters have been redistributing food from supermarkets to local foodbanks across the country this morning. Take Back Power is a nonviolent civil-resistance group, demanding that the UK government establish a ‘House of the People’. This is a permanent citizen-led assembly with the power to tax extreme wealth. From around 8.30am on 14 March, teams across four UK cities – Manchester, London, Exeter and Truro – entered supermarkets. They began putting food and necessities into boxes emblazoned with: These things are going to those who need them.

Urban Gardens Can Bolster American Democracy

January 14, 2026 Sam Delgado, Civil Eats. Create! Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Urban Design, Urban Gardens

When people walk or drive past urban gardens, they often just see what’s on the surface. Raised beds on a small plot. Seedlings poking through the dirt. Perhaps bright pops of colorful produce, like tomatoes or peppers. But when Kate Brown, an environmental historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), looks at urban gardens, she sees a deep-rooted history of activism and sustainability—one that spans centuries, continents, and communities. Brown distilled her research on the subject into her forthcoming book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City.

Starving The Safety Net

December 30, 2025 Kalena Thomhave, Dollars and Sense. Educate! Austerity, Food Security, Poverty, SNAP, Trump Administration

At the start of November, while the government was shut down due to a lapse in federal appropriations, millions of families across the United States abruptly lost access to food assistance. For the first time since the creation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly called “food stamps”) in the 1960s, the federal government chose not to fund benefits during a shutdown. The Trump administration broke with decades of precedent, followed by both Democratic and Republican administrations, by allowing the nation’s largest anti-hunger program to grind to a halt.

Santa Claus Impersonators, Masked Elves Steal From The Rich

December 21, 2025 Leora Schertzer, Montreal Gazette. Resist! Canada, Food Security, Montreal, Mutual Aid

A group of Santa Claus impersonators and a band of masked elves appear to have stolen thousands of dollars of food from a Metro grocery store in the Plateau neighbourhood Monday night. The group claiming to be behind the heist calls itself Robins des ruelles, inspired by Robin Hood. Videos of the alleged heist circulated on social media, showing individuals dressed as Santa and masked elves swarming the store. The grocery store — located on Laurier Ave. near Chambord St. — was robbed at 9:40 p.m. Monday, Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant confirmed.

Tribes File Federal Suit Over Prosecution Of Hunting, Fishing

November 19, 2025 Native News Online. Resist! Food Security, Indigenous Sovereignty, Legal System, Oklahoma

The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Cherokee Nation have filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, alleging that Gov. Kevin Stitt and state officials are unlawfully prosecuting tribal citizens for hunting and fishing on tribal land. The suit, filed Monday, names Stitt; his newly appointed special prosecutor, Russ Cochran; and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) as defendants. The tribes argue that the governor does not have the authority to appoint a special prosecutor for wildlife offenses on tribal land and that his directives to ODWC violate tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 McGirt decision.

Chilkat Indian Village Tells New Palmer Mine Owners They’re ‘Not Welcome’

November 15, 2025 Native News Online. Resist! Environment, Food Security, Indigenous Sovereignty, Mining

Leaders of the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan and the conservation group Chilkat Forever are warning the new owners of the Palmer mine project that they will face “sustained and unyielding opposition” if they pursue hardrock mining in the Chilkat Valley. The groups said the proposed mine — recently acquired by Vizsla Copper — threatens the Jilḵáat Aani Ḵa Héeni (Chilkat Valley Watershed), a region known for its rich cultural traditions and biodiverse ecosystem, including bald eagles, salmon, moose and bears. “Whether it’s Vizsla Copper Corporation, American Pacific Mining Corporation, or another operator that owns the Palmer mining project, this industrial hardrock mining development lacks the consent of the Chilkat Indian Village - Klukwan and of many in the broader community,” said Kimberley Strong.

Kentucky Organizers Fill The Gaps As SNAP Delays Leave Families In Limbo

November 10, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Organize! Food Access, Food Security, Food stamps, Government Shutdown, Kentucky, Mutual Aid, SNAP

“I was expecting, maybe, four of us?” Willa Johnson remarked, earning a few laughs around the table. She sat among about 20 familiar friends and new faces. Most were residents of Letcher County in southeast Kentucky. All were committed to helping their neighbors through food insecurity amid the federal government shutdown. Two days earlier, Johnson made a post in a new mutual aid Facebook group, ‘Kinfolks Feeding Kinfolks,’ asking for locals to help fill the gap if the shutdown halted food aid benefits. She gave a statement, date, time, location and a plea to leave politics at the door. “After the floods in 2022, we saw the very best of that neighborly love in action.

Expanding Food Security And Protecting Cherokee Elders

November 9, 2025 Chuck Hoskin Jr, Native News Online. Create! Cherokee Nation, Elders, Food Security, Indigenous Communities

As Cherokee Nation citizens, we draw strength from those who came before us. Our elders are the foundation of our communities, the keepers of our history, and the heart of our families. As we gathered recently for the annual Cherokee Elder Summit, we renewed a promise to care for those who have showed us the way. That promise is taking shape through a major expansion of our elder nutrition services, backed by up to $2 million from the tribe’s Public Health and Wellness Fund. This investment will expand food access, create new nutrition sites, and strengthen support for Cherokee elders across our 7,000-square-mile reservation in northeast Oklahoma.

Labor Department: Immigration Raids Are Causing A Food Crisis

October 9, 2025 David Dayen, The American Prospect. Educate! Donald Trump, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Immigrant Labor, Trump Administration

The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages,” according to a document filed in the Federal Register last week. The document also indicates that American workers are simply not interested in and do not have the skills to perform agricultural jobs, at odds with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s claim that the farm workforce will soon be 100 percent American.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds Of Food Aid

October 3, 2025 Ruth Talbot and Nicole Santa Cruz, Pro Publica. Educate! Austerity, Donald Trump, Food Banks, Food Security

On a sweltering morning in Vidalia, Louisiana, Shannan Cornwell and Freddie Green got in a long line to wait for food. The couple has struggled to pay for groceries amid soaring prices and health setbacks, they said. She had back surgery. He had undergone cancer treatment. They turned to a local food bank to supplement their diets. Although they’re grateful for the food, lately they’ve noticed changes in what they receive. For months in the spring and summer their pickups did not include any meat, Cornwell said. “You have to learn how to adapt to what you have,” Green said. “Which is hard,” Cornwell added. In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million in deliveries from a program that sends U.S.-produced meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks and other organizations across the country — about a quarter of the funding the program received in 2024.

Rural Europe Takes Action: Food System Lessons From Marburg

September 17, 2025 ARC2020 Staff, Resilience. Create! Europe, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Local Economy

Summer’s flowers hang dried in neat bunches around the workshop room of the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów, as changemakers from France, Germany and Poland gather in the early days of winter 2024. What can rural communities do in the face of the ecological, social and economic crises society faces today, and what role can cross-border exchange between local actors play? These questions marked the coming together of what we have come to call the rural Weimar triangle, a grassroots counterpart – and perhaps challenge to – the high-level diplomatic agreement between the governments of these three countries. Villages, towns and cities, after all, have a lot to offer in response to today’s global challenges.

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