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BEHIND THE BRANDS : Food justice and the “Big 10‟ food and beverage companies

2016

Publication

Food Justice

Authors: Oxfam

In this report, Oxfam assesses the social and environmental policies of the world’s ten largest food and beverage companies and calls on them to take the critical next steps to create a just food system.

Bringing the Food Economy Home

2016

Video

Local and Regional Food Systems

Authors: Local Futures

This webinar tackles the subject of local food economies from an international perspective. Our presenters highlighted successful local food projects in the global North and South, and discussed how to localize all stages of the food supply chain – from farm to market to table.

Selling Off the Farm: Meat’s Takeover Through TTIP

2016

Publication

Policy & Advocacy

Authors: Sharon Treat and Shefali Sharma

This first of its kind study compares EU and U.S. regulations aimed at the meat industry, including labor, the environment, animal welfare and public health. It is done with the hope that it helps policymakers and citizens concretize the impacts of TTIP’s (de) regulatory agenda on an industry that requires drastic reform—an industry that is dramatically disconnected from citizen and consumer concerns about how meat is produced, who produces it and the long term negative impacts of this extractive model.

FROM UNIFORMITY TO DIVERSITY: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

2016

Publication

Food Systems, Sustainable Agriculture

Authors: International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, Emile A. Frison

A report on the problems with industrial agriculture and the need to transition to a diversified agroecological model.

Journal of Agriculture, Food System & Community Development: Labor in the Food System from Farm to Table

2016

Publication

Food Systems, Supply Chains, Worker Justice, Workforce

The Winter 2015-16 Issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development – Special Topic: Labor in the Food System