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This Land Is Their Land

The Landless Workers Movement claims a big victory in southern Brazil.

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Monsanto Beets Down Opposition

Environmental and public health groups are suing the USDA to stop the planting of Roundup Ready-proof GMO sugar beets

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Origins of the Obama Machine

The farmworkers movement brought community organizing strategies to the electoral arena, writes Randy Shaw, in this excerpt from his new book

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Corporate Potluck

Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows

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King of the Crop

Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports

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Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change

Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality

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Recipe For Disaster

What's (not) in a food label?

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Who Does U.S. Food Aid Benefit?

Current policies favor giant shipping companies and agribusinesses over the starving populations they are supposed to serve

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Farming the Concrete Jungle

In cities across the country urban farmers are growing communities, greening the landscape and revolutionizing food politics.

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Whose Subsidy Is It Anyway?

Farmers take the heat, but Big Ag reaps the farm bill benefits

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Doing It For Themselves

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers turns 'corporate social responsibility' from oxymoron into reality

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A Win for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

In the face of a giant protest, McDonald's caves into farmworkers' demands for a penny per basket raise.

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The Multinational Beanfield War

Soy cultivation spells doom for Paraguayan campesinos

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Biofuels: Promise or Peril?

The answer depends on how governments regulate the industry

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Seeds of Hope: Gardening in Barren Times

The image of the Hortus conclusus--literally "enclosed garden"--has had a place in Western art and literature at least as… more

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The E. coli Free Market

The E. Coli outbreak is caused by the deregualtion and mass production of food by corporate agriculture's economies of scale.

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Biofuel Challenges Big Oil

Biofuel corporations promise big benefits, but environmentalists have their doubts

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Drug Warriors Push Eye-Eating Fungus

Why are members of Congress advocating the use of a dangerous crop-killer in Colombia?

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