Engaged Scholarship for Agroecological Food Systems
We are scholars working on farm justice, food sovereignty, and agroecology in North America, alongside and in support of social movements of farmers, workers, organizers, land defenders, and advocates.
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MAHA v. Mamdani
ARC member Raj Patel wrote this essay for the Boston Review, highlighting the chasm between health policy based on “enlightened personal-responsibility consumerism” and strategies of collective care, like a public grocery store system that gives people access to affordable, agroecologically grown food. Mamdani’s comprehensive approach will need to build coalitions, but it has the strength…
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The case for a land observatory
ARC member Adam Calo continues to call for much more attention to the status and ownership of agricultural land. When it comes to this land, powerful actors exploit opacity. They use obscurity in land registries and ownership structures to make speculative deals, secure rents, and extract profits—often at the expense of local communities. Flipping that…
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‘Fuel To Fork’: New IPES-Food Report
ARC members contributed to this new report from the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). What will it take to get fossil fuels out of our food systems? Download the PDF here,…