Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
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For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However...
#ExpropriationBill
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An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone
New paper: we argue that the everyday experience of food insecurity is highly differentiated in village contexts in Myanmar (and the Global South more broadly), and develop an everyday political economy approach to interrogate this difference. Free here rdcu.be/d5bci paywall doi.org/10.1007/s125....
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DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group leader | global value chains | agrarian political economy | critical development
Geographer (associate professor) at Portland State, OR. Global Development, Labor, Migration, Agro-ecological change, Caste, Masculinities
AAG brings together members of the global geographic community. We are an academic & professional organization representing educators, researchers, & practitioners in geography. https://www.aag.org/membership/
Associate professor, Purdue Anthropology. Environmental anthropology, ethnobiology, political ecology, food, biotech, fermentation, agriculture. US Midwest, South Asia, Balkans. He/him/his
www.andrewflachs.com
The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) produces independent, non-profit journalism at the intersection of food, agriculture, and the environment.
Working for a secure #FutureofFood for all.
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Professor and Chair of Rural Sociology at Wageningen University;
Scientific director Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS).
Rural development - Food provisioning - Agrarian change - Urban-Rural relations - Alterity - Diversity - Place
Professor of Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London, into labour, agrarian change, economic transformations, survey design, development policy, and Atlético de Madrid.
Interested in agrarian change, climate adaptation, food, labour and work. Senior Lecturer in International Development, KCL. Views my own.
Award-winning nonprofit media outlet publishing global environmental science & news in 6 languages via bureaus in India, Brazil, Africa, Latin America, Indonesia & US: https://mongabay.com
Educator and researcher interested in agroecology, food commons, post-capitalist food futures
Anthropologist | Agronomist | Program Coordinator | Developmental Editor
Author of "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado." April 2025
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780233/welcome-to-soylandia/#bookTabs=
Leading international journal dedicated to the systematic exploration of IPE from a plurality of perspectives.
Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) of the American Association of Geographers.
Sociologist at NC State who studies food and food systems. I wrote a book about tequila, and another one about cooking. Now writing a book about food insecurity.
I think about food.
IPE/GPE
Teaching with ungrading practices.
https://www.mun.ca/political-science/people/sarah-martin/
Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" http://antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!
Principal scientist Universidad de Talca & professor of agrifood innovation & transition Wageningen University. Food systems transformation, digital agriculture. Editor JAEE, Agricultural Systems
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography & Food, Agriculture & Society Program Director at Macalester College | Prez American Association of Geographers | Prez Mande Studies Association | Africa, Food Security, Agriculture, Agroecology, Political Ecology
