Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agricultural Systems in the Americas
We know you care about what you eat, how it was produced, and who was harmed or who benefited in the process. Everywhere, people like you are reclaiming the food system from multinational agribusiness and putting it back in the hands of small farmers, low-income families, farmworkers, guardians of Native culture, and health-conscious communities. Read about these efforts in Other Worlds’ new 140-page book, Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agricultural Systems in the Americas. The result of five years of research and interviews from throughout the hemisphere, the book describes strategies to win food justice and food sovereignty. An appendix and popular education curriculum offer hundreds of concrete ways to learn more and get involved.
Download the Harvesting Justice pdf here, and find action items, resources, and a popular education curriculum on the Harvesting Justice website. We are also running a weekly blog series based on the book. Harvesting Justice was created for the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, which works to "end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system."
See the latest review of Harvesting Justice in YES! magazine here!
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Sliding scale of $10-20: please pay what you are able. Higher payments will help us make copies more accessible for grassroots organizations with more limited budgets. If these prices are prohibitive, please be in touch with us at info.otherworlds@gmail.com. If you are a USFSA member, contact us for discounted rates. Thank you!
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We have some copies with a minor print error (the title page is on the left instead of the right-hand side, but the book is completely readable as normal).
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Please note: At the moment, books will take 3-4 weeks to reach you as we are just finishing up our printing. Discounted books will reach you faster.
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Here’s what people are saying about Harvesting Justice:
“Field and Bell’s transformative work gets to the cultural and political heart of food politics and production. Harvesting Justice more than captures a deep, intelligent explanation of the state of food sovereignty in the Americas – it gives us an empowering, community-based framework for meaningful action. If you believe that food has power to change lives, read on.”
- Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
If our people want to eat twenty years from now, we will need food justice. We will need to transform a dependent, fossil-fuels based industrial food system into one which restores our collective relationship to the land, the plants, and each other. The stories and the vision shared in Harvesting Justice inspire and inform that work. I’m grateful for the storytellers and those whose hands are on the earth.”
- Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist, author of Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming and The Militarization of Indian Country
“If you’re wondering what on earth ‘food sovereignty’ is, I can’t think of a better place to start than Harvesting Justice. Tory Field and Beverly Bell have condensed a vast field of research and activism into a vibrant and lively handbook. It’s a terrific primer on what’s wrong with the global food system and, even better, what to do about it.”
- Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
“Ben and Jerry’s has always promoted local agriculture. Harvesting Justice shows how the sum of local efforts everywhere can contribute to a global shift. We can reclaim power from agricultural corporations, for our future and the earth’s. This important book gives many insights and tools on how to do so.”
- Jerry Greenfield, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry’s
“From my standpoint as a farmer, food sovereignty is a God-given right. Everyone should have the right to clean water, clean air, and wholesome food. As long as people are hungry there will be no justice. Harvesting Justice will help educate all people who interact with food about their role in creating a humane food system and a healthy earth. It’s all about the blessings we have from Mother Earth - Protect Her.”
- Ben F. Burkett, Farmer, President of the National Family Farm Coalition
“Anyone interested in understanding more about justice in the food system should take a good look at this book. But don’t just look… use it as a resource to connect with others and take action, so you can be part of the creation of the food movement’s next chapter.”
- Gerardo Reyes Chávez, Staff member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
“Many people are familiar with the quest for healthy, organic food. But the food movement also includes the need for food justice, land reform, and other faces of food sovereignty. If you want to see nutritious and wholesome food produced with respect for the earth available to all, you’ll love Harvesting Justice.”
- John Robbins, author of Diet For A New America, Co-founder of The Food Revolution Network
