Insight
While Juneteenth – a day of celebration for the end of slavery – is now a federal holiday, the struggle for justice, human rights, and freedom continues. Dismantling systemic racism requires a radical transformation of our society, including the ways in which we grow our food. No institution has been…
Insight / Climate Justice
Throughout his presidential campaign, President Biden put a premium on reclaiming America’s climate leadership. However, the actual history of the United States in climate negotiations has generally been one of undercutting ambition. So for the U.S. to truly claim climate leadership, Biden will need to do more than break with…
Insight / Emergency Response
ActionAid USA explains why the New U.S. Ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome must be prepared to defend and expand human rights and democratic participation in order to end hunger and protect the world’s food systems. As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing poverty,…
Insight / Politics & Economics
After four years of “America First” ultranationalism and xenophobia, ActionAid USA is excited to work with a new administration that cares about constructive engagement with the rest of the world. However, we also recognize that our country’s relationship with the rest of the world has always been fraught, well before…
Insight
President-Elect Joe Biden has announced he will be nominating Tom Vilsack to return to the role he had for eight years under the Obama Administration. This is a major misstep from the Biden team, doubling down on an approach to agriculture that has failed farmers, rural communities, and the planet.…
Insight / Climate Justice
Luckily, Family farmers and social movements are ready to transform U.S. farm policy. Family farmers are vital for the future. Not only will we need family farmers to produce healthy food for more people, but we need family farmers to do so by transitioning to a food and agricultural system…
Insight / Climate Justice
In wealthy countries like the U.S., where food is cheap and readily available, agriculture has too often been an afterthought. But as the global crises we face become more severe, people are waking up to how important agriculture is to our daily lives and to the state of the world.…
Insight / Climate Justice
Agriculture and food security were ActionAid’s entry points into climate change work. Over a dozen years ago, we began hearing from farmer partners across Africa and Asia about changing rainfall patterns, increasingly frequent floods and droughts, soil salinization due to sea level rise and ocean encroachment. For all of these…
Insight / Climate Justice
The cover story of this month’s The Atlantic magazine is a must-read article by Vann Newkirk titled “The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.” It chronicles the decades of systematic corruption that defrauded black farmers and their families…
Insight / Climate Justice
Right now, I’m in Bellingham, WA, to participate in the IV Membership Assembly of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA). At a time when global social, political, and ecological crises continue to accelerate, communities from around the country on the frontlines of the corporate, industrial food and agriculture system are…
