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John Miller Jul 7, 2025

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No Tax on Tips

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Issue 317: March/April 2015

These Things Can Change

Text by David Bacon and Rosario Ventura
photos by David Bacon

Migrant farmworkers stand up in Washington State | Read more »
Maine Farmers and Climate Change

Stephanie Welcomer, Mark Haggerty,
and John Jemison

Reactive, or Proactive? | Read more »
Seeds of Change

Elizabeth Fraser and Anuradha Mittal

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

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No Friendship in Trade

Sasha Breger Bush

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

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editors’ note Farms Today
the short run
comment The Wealth of the Land and the Power of the People
making sense Community Supported Agriculture
in review Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket
economy in numbers Food Insecurity in Affluent America
ask dr. dollar Keystone XL and Eminent Domain