Issue 317: March/April 2015

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  These Things Can Change

  Text by David Bacon and Rosario Ventura
  photos by David Bacon

  Migrant farmworkers stand up in Washington State | Read more »

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  Maine Farmers and Climate Change

  Stephanie Welcomer, Mark Haggerty,
  and John Jemison

  Reactive, or Proactive? | Read more »

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  Seeds of Change

  Elizabeth Fraser and Anuradha Mittal

  Corporate Power, Grassroots Resistance, and the Battle Over the Food System | Read more »

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  The Great Land Giveaway in Mozambique

  Timothy A. Wise

  It turns out to be easier to get a government to give away a farmer’s land than it is to actually farm it. | Read more »

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  The Failure of Industrial Agriculture

  John Ikerd

  Agricultural industrialization has had a devastating effect on the quality of rural life, and has failed in its most fundamental purpose: providing food security. | Read more »

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Land Grabbing Around the World

Lukas Ross and Timothy A. Wise

Wall Street’s U.S. Land Grab; The Great Land Giveaway in Mozambique. | Order this issue or subscribe.

No Friendship in Trade

Sasha Breger Bush

Farmers face modern-day robber barons, in the United States and worldwide. | Order this issue or subscribe.