Food Security

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.

This Roof Depot Land Is Ready To Heal

August 9, 2025 Eric Ortiz, SW Connector. Strategize! Food Security, Minneapolis, Roof Depot, Urban Farming

East Phillips is ready to rise. In Minneapolis – a city long divided by race, pollution, politics, and pain – this Southside neighborhood is showing a new way forward. It’s a path rooted in care, justice, and restoration. The East Phillips Urban Farm is more than a neighborhood development project. It is a bold, community-led vision to reclaim land poisoned by decades of environmental racism and convert it into a thriving hub of healing with fresh food, clean energy, good jobs, and cultural connection. This is what restorative practices look like in real life. That vision is now at risk. After years of organizing, legal battles, and raising more than $10 million, the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) stands ready to buy the 7-acre Roof Depot site from the city of Minneapolis.

Venezuela On The Verge Of Eradicating Hunger

August 2, 2025 Mision Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Bolivarian Revolution, Food Security, Hunger, Venezuela

Since the imposition of illegal coercive measures (euphemistically referred to as sanctions) by the US and its allies on Venezuela in 2014, and after 11 years with a burden of 1,041 Unilateral Coercive Measures (MCU) on the nation, which places it between the fifth and sixth most sanctioned country in the world depending on the source, the country has once again reduced the hunger that appeared amid the economic, financial, and commercial blockade perpetrated against the national government as part of the war to stifle the economy, prevent the supply of essential goods, and negatively impact food security and sovereignty, with the goal of imposing the failed regime change.

Future Sustainable Neighbourhood

July 8, 2025 Tony Buck, Resilience. Create! climate crisis, Food Security, Local Economy, Sustainability

Billionaires are building bunkers. What do they know that the “average” person doesn’t? Well, those who pay attention know that multiple Nature tipping points are being either breached, or reached! (The Metacrisis.) Add to that regional conflicts that could go worldwide, and us “average” people may also feel concerned about the near and far-off future. So, I wrote this book, Future Sustainable Neighborhood, for those who can’t afford to buy islands and build bunkers (me included). Anyway, what’s the use of being a billionaire if there’s no food to buy in the market? When one writes, immediate distillation occurs as we zoom in on what needs to be said.

Hunger By Policy: Fasting For Food Security In Nigeria

June 18, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. Resist! Bola Tinubu, Food Security, Hunger, International Monetary Fund, Nigeria

As President Bola Tinubu’s deepening neoliberal reforms to appease the IMF worsens hunger, his government’s agriculture ministry has outraged Nigerians by organizing prayers and fasting in the hopes that a “divine intervention” will help improve food security. The first of these prayers was to be held on Monday, Jun 16, followed by two more on the successive Mondays on June 23 and June 30. The invitation to attend these prayers in a fasted state was sent out to the staff through an internal circular dated June 11 by Adedayo Modupe, the ministry’s Director of Human Resource Management. “How do you expect a hungry man to start fasting again?

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