Farmers Supporting Farmers
Since 2006 scholar and activist Eric Holt-Giménez has been executive director of Food First (Institute for Food and Development Policy), a people’s think tank founded by Frances Moore Lappé in 1975.
Since 2006 scholar and activist Eric Holt-Giménez has been executive director of Food First (Institute for Food and Development Policy), a people’s think tank founded by Frances Moore Lappé in 1975.
Listen in as Acres USA’s Fred Walters leads a discussion between Dr. Vandana Shiva, a peace and food health advocate who came all the way from India, André Leu, president of IFOAM, who came from Australia, and Ronnie Cummings, founder of the Organic Consumers Association, an international group focused on real change in our food supply.
Susan Sink with the American Farmland Trust is a farmer who has diversified her cattle farm in hopes of finding a way to keep her farm going in a very challenging environment for cattle farmers, and works every day to advocate for the future of farming and family farms.