food justice

Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Elaina Burress November 15, 2016 0 Comments

By Elaina Burress and Hana Bracale Today I sat in on one of the few (if not only) COP22 side events on the impacts of animal agriculture in driving climate change. Speakers came from Brighter Green (a US non-profit action tank with a focus on food policy and equity), Humane Society International, and the Global Forest Coalition (an organization working for socially-just forest policy, with a...

Credo

Kim April 27, 2016 0 Comments

by Aneesa Khan (Originally posted on The Odyssey Online) Climate activism burn-out and rediscovering a sense of hope in the movement for food justice. “Sorry to say this, but as party negotiators, do you think we care about what civil society says or does at these conferences? We don’t have the time.” “Why are you upset? It’s not even a real fight, it’s one of the privileged”...

Food Justice: What’s at Stake in Paris?

guest October 4, 2015 0 Comments

guest blog by Doreen Stabinsky, Professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic. Five key fights at the UNFCCC: The build-up to the December Paris climate summit is focusing world attention on the issue of climate change. In the process, there is significant opportunity to raise and highlight justice issues that lie at the intersection of climate change and food – for...