Black Farmers: Food, Land & Resistance Pt. 2

Africa World Now Project · Jan 4, 2019 · 48m

According to the article, Reform or Transformation? The Pivotal Role of Food Justice in the U.S. Food Movement, the global food price crisis of 2008 ushered in record levels of hunger for the world’s poor at a time of record global harvests as well as record profits for the world’s major agrifoods corporations (Lean 2008). According to the United Nations World Food Program, more than 90 percent of the world’s hungry are simply too poor to buy enough food (2011). Some of the planet’s most hungry people live in the Global North, though hunger is measured as “food insecurity”. Food insecurity in…