Zoe W. Brent is a researcher on agrarian justice issues and a fellow at Food First, Institute for Food & Development Policy in Oakland, California. This is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of The Secure and Dispossessed. Nick Buxton (co-editor) is a communications consultant, working on media, publications and online communications for the Transnational Institute (TNI). Annie Shattuck is a Fellow at Food First and co-author of Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice (2010).
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Rural America
Sowing Insecurity: Food and Agriculture in a Time of Climate Crisis
Zoe W. Brent, Nick Buxton and Annie Shattuck