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Originally published on the Pursue blog. The second ever United States Social Forum (USSF) was convened from June 22 through June 26 in Detroit, Michigan, bringing together over 15,000 activists from across the US and from around the world. More than just a conference, the USSF was a historic convergence and a movement-building process, aimed at …
Originally published on the Pursue blog. Pursue’s Mind Your Agri-Business event on Tuesday, the second in its Chewing on Food Justice series, featured three panelists: Eleanor Starmer (Western Region Director at Food & Water Watch), Leon Vehaba (farmer from Everett Family Farm in Soquel, California), and Deborah Sellers (co-founder of Sellers Markets, a successful local sustainable multi-unit fast-casual …
I recently caught up with Thida Yan, AJWS’s in-country consultant in Cambodia, to learn about what’s happening on the ground. Here’s what Thida had to share: How many grantees does AJWS have in Cambodia? We have fourteen grantees. What are some of the themes we focus on in Cambodia? We focus on land rights, domestic …
September 29th is National Coffee Day? Who knew?! For all you justice-seeking java-holics, here’s something to consider: For the majority of small-scale coffee farmers in the developing world, the benefits of their hard work and economic investments are extremely limited. Rural farmers are isolated from global markets, and the long journey of a harvested coffee …
As we approach Sukkot, the week-long holiday of agricultural thanksgiving and a time when wewelcome those who are less fortunate to sit in a sukkah and partake in our bounty, we must not forget about those for whom harvests and bounty are scarce. A few sobering headlines: Not a Food Crisis [The New York Times] Russia’s misguided decision to …
