The Evens Brutus Foundation is empowering the next generation by establishing school gardens to combat food insecurity and promote community resilience.
Celebrating Indigenous Food Sovereignty Efforts that Drive Wide-Ranging Change
Indigenous communities are setting the terms for their own food and agriculture systems, rematriating seeds, restoring buffalo herds, and uplifting the healing properties of traditional foods.
Food Tank Explains: Food Justice
This primer on food justice explains how equitable food systems support food equity, worker rights, and self-determination.
Indigenous-led Project Advances Food Sovereignty in the Amazon
A community-led project is helping the Yawanawá restore degraded Amazon land, rebuild food systems, and protect traditional knowledge.
‘Agriculture Is the Culture’ at Pennsylvania’s Largest Black-Owned Farm
A 128-acre farm in Pennsylvania is reshaping how agriculture serves people and communities.
Food Tank Explains: Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty is the right of communities to define how food is produced, distributed, and consumed. This explainer outlines its origins, principles, and how it challenges industrial agriculture by prioritizing equity, sustainability, and local control.
Food Tank’s Weekly News Roundup: Tribal Nations Assert Food Sovereignty, Chile’s Wildfires Expand, and Ethiopia Faces Deepening Hunger
A weekly snapshot of how food systems, climate impacts, and policy decisions are shaping lives from Indigenous lands to classrooms and crisis zones.
Indigenous Wisdom Offers Path Forward for Global Food Systems Reform
Research with Yucatec Maya farmers demonstrates the importance of intercultural knowledge co-creation in developing regenerative food systems.
Food 2050 Visionaries: Nourishing Nairobi with Ubuntu
In Nairobi, urban farming is more than growing food—it’s restoring dignity, nutrition, and community.
Op-Ed | The Global Food System Is Broken—and Fixing it Will Take More than Good Intentions
One estimate shows that up to US$1 billion could be saved by reducing redundancies and improving collaboration between U.N. food agencies.
Mexico Amends Constitution to Prohibit GM Corn Seeds
Mexico has officially banned GM corn seeds, strengthening protections for biodiversity, food sovereignty, and public health.
What’s Left Out of the Conversation When it Comes to Urban Agriculture
NYC gardeners have been addressing food apartheid themselves for years by turning vacant lots into food production and distribution sites.
New Report Notes the Global Struggle Over Farmland and Food Sovereignty
A new report by IPES-Food reveals that global land consolidation by powerful actors is displacing small farmers and threatening biodiversity.
Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute: Sowing Seeds of Sustainability
Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute is preserving indigenous wisdom to create a more sustainable and resilient world.
New African Society: Cultivating Seeds of Change in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province
New African Society’s approach integrates agro-biodiversity, fostering food sovereignty while addressing long standing socio-economic challenges in Sierra Leone’s rural communities.
Building Power in Food Systems through Social Cohesion: ‘You Have to Mobilize Together’
Million Belay believes in a model for food systems that is grounded in communities, promoting a goal of food sovereignty
2023 Food Sovereignty Prize Recipients Center on Community Organizing
This month, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) announced the 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize recipients.
Investing In Local Farmers To Build Food Sovereignty for Haiti
By investing in local economies, local peasant associations, and local solutions like agroecology, organizations are rebuilding a self-sufficient food system.
Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners (BUGs) National Conference Comes to Philadelphia
The event will offer sessions including keynote speeches by renowned speakers, urban farm tours, social events, and over 50 workshops
The International Peasant Movement Is Growing
For more than 30 years, La Via Campesina has advocated for food sovereignty, environmental justice, and peasants’ rights.