Raj Patel
@rajpatel.org
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!
Clara Mattei founded the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation - FREE - just a few months ago. Already, it's a hub for praxis not just in Tulsa, but far beyond. Here's our conversation on the food system: youtu.be/BXZu39LWgm0
More Food, More Hunger: How Capitalism Turned Food Against Us
Food is more abundant than ever – but between rising prices, food insecurity, and a crisis of food affordability, we’re getting sicker and hungrier at the same time.
In this live FREE (Forum for…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Clara Mattei founded the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation - FREE - just a few months ago. Already, it's a hub for praxis not just in Tulsa, but far beyond. Here's our conversation on the food system: youtu.be/BXZu39LWgm0
What problems can public food procurement solve for? At least 15 different things, with 52 different ways of tackling them. Balancing mechanisms and goals is the proper object of politics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What problems can public food procurement solve for? At least 15 different things, with 52 different ways of tackling them. Balancing mechanisms and goals is the proper object of politics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Last week, the WFP announced that 318 million people face acute food insecurity. My friend and colleague Erin Lentz led a team asking 'do the numbers add up?' Answer: no. The WFP likely undercounts 1 in 5 in crisis. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
December 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Last week, the WFP announced that 318 million people face acute food insecurity. My friend and colleague Erin Lentz led a team asking 'do the numbers add up?' Answer: no. The WFP likely undercounts 1 in 5 in crisis. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
You should know about the largest far-right network in history. This is as comprehensive a mapping of India's far right as I've seen: incredible journalism and data visualization. caravanmagazine.in/politics/unv...
December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You should know about the largest far-right network in history. This is as comprehensive a mapping of India's far right as I've seen: incredible journalism and data visualization. caravanmagazine.in/politics/unv...
Four groups of toxins in food lead to >$1.4 trillion in healthcare costs. Chances that the chemical industry will ever pay the bill: zero. www.systemiq.earth/reports/invi...
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Four groups of toxins in food lead to >$1.4 trillion in healthcare costs. Chances that the chemical industry will ever pay the bill: zero. www.systemiq.earth/reports/invi...
New York's Good Food Purchasing Program matters far beyond NYC - here's how, and why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-y...
Cultivating Community: Why Values-Based Food Purchasing Matters
Across New York, farmers are growing more than food. They’re growing relationships, strong local economies, and the resilience our communities need in the face of climate disruption, fragile global…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New York's Good Food Purchasing Program matters far beyond NYC - here's how, and why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-y...
That social movements are on the front lines of polycrisis isn't new. What's exciting is that their polysolutions are getting high-level airtime. Abahlali baseMjondolo presented theirs at SADC yesterday www.pressreader.com/south-africa...
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That social movements are on the front lines of polycrisis isn't new. What's exciting is that their polysolutions are getting high-level airtime. Abahlali baseMjondolo presented theirs at SADC yesterday www.pressreader.com/south-africa...
I've been thinking through 'polycrisis', finding its rise and fall helpful to think with. The Transition Security Project invited me to bend those ideas their way, and I'm very pleased with how they turned out: transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
Polycrisis: A Breviary
Today’s world is beset by several overlapping crises. Movements on the frontline are mapping out strategies for survival.
transitionsecurity.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've been thinking through 'polycrisis', finding its rise and fall helpful to think with. The Transition Security Project invited me to bend those ideas their way, and I'm very pleased with how they turned out: transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
Excellent new FoE report out on how USDA’s Commodity Food Purchasing Favors Industrial Agriculture by buying from conglomerates - esp Tyson - rather than sustainable farmers foe.org/resources/us...
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Excellent new FoE report out on how USDA’s Commodity Food Purchasing Favors Industrial Agriculture by buying from conglomerates - esp Tyson - rather than sustainable farmers foe.org/resources/us...
There aren't many places in the US that weave serious climate policy analysis with grassroots action, but the Climate + Community Institute is one. I'm proud to be on their advisory board and, this Giving Tuesday, would love for you to join me in supporting them. secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
There aren't many places in the US that weave serious climate policy analysis with grassroots action, but the Climate + Community Institute is one. I'm proud to be on their advisory board and, this Giving Tuesday, would love for you to join me in supporting them. secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
Reposted by Raj Patel
NEW ESSAY: Read @rajpatel.org on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
Polycrisis: A Breviary
Today’s world is beset by several overlapping crises. Movements on the frontline are mapping out strategies for survival.
transitionsecurity.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW ESSAY: Read @rajpatel.org on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
I couldn't stop thinking about a 1950s pre-show before an Alamo Drafthouse screening of One Battle After Another. It's now online, and hints at why US culture wars over Christmas are so politically charged. #ChristmasExplorersClub www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIEu...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I couldn't stop thinking about a 1950s pre-show before an Alamo Drafthouse screening of One Battle After Another. It's now online, and hints at why US culture wars over Christmas are so politically charged. #ChristmasExplorersClub www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIEu...
Naomi Klein is in brilliant form in her latest essay, linking surrealism, Zionism, Zohran and a vision for the antithesis of fascism in Equator: www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Naomi Klein is in brilliant form in her latest essay, linking surrealism, Zionism, Zohran and a vision for the antithesis of fascism in Equator: www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Consumption of beef in China will decline this year and fall again in 2026, while pork has hit a "structural plateau", and the egg market is glutted. But chicken is everywhere. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Consumption of beef in China will decline this year and fall again in 2026, while pork has hit a "structural plateau", and the egg market is glutted. But chicken is everywhere. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Public Option to Stop Price Gouging is spreading. Avi Lewis has it as a plank in his platform for NDP leadership in Canada. lewisforleader.ca/ideas/public...
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Public Option to Stop Price Gouging is spreading. Avi Lewis has it as a plank in his platform for NDP leadership in Canada. lewisforleader.ca/ideas/public...
It's International Food Workers Week, and the Food Chain Workers Alliance is showing what it is to be in solidarity with the people who make eating possible. foodchainworkers.org/portfolio/fo...
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It's International Food Workers Week, and the Food Chain Workers Alliance is showing what it is to be in solidarity with the people who make eating possible. foodchainworkers.org/portfolio/fo...
Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy www.theariofrancos.com/extraction then listen: thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy www.theariofrancos.com/extraction then listen: thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
Food systems only transform through coalition. Here's a pitch to Team Mamdani. Next partners to be reeled in: unions, public schools, and restaurants. Thx to Community Food Advocates for looping me in! www.foodadvocates.org/cfa-supermar...
CFA Supermarket Access Economic Modeling — Community Food Advocates
Focus on City-Owned Supermarkets and Complementary Cooperative Ownership Models
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November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Food systems only transform through coalition. Here's a pitch to Team Mamdani. Next partners to be reeled in: unions, public schools, and restaurants. Thx to Community Food Advocates for looping me in! www.foodadvocates.org/cfa-supermar...
From an incredible shortlist, it was an honour to hand Omar El Akkad the National Book Award for non-fiction this year. His speech left not a dry eye in the house. He, and his book, deserve your attention. the.ink/p/omar-el-ak...
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
From an incredible shortlist, it was an honour to hand Omar El Akkad the National Book Award for non-fiction this year. His speech left not a dry eye in the house. He, and his book, deserve your attention. the.ink/p/omar-el-ak...
The Lancet's series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health is a landmark. The hard part, always, is to shape policy to match the science. www.thelancet.com/infographics...
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Lancet's series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health is a landmark. The hard part, always, is to shape policy to match the science. www.thelancet.com/infographics...
Now that I can post freely about books, there's quite a backlog. First, get your library to get a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Land Politics. (30% discount below) Ian Scoones lists the reason to read it and, as always, he's right: www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Now that I can post freely about books, there's quite a backlog. First, get your library to get a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Land Politics. (30% discount below) Ian Scoones lists the reason to read it and, as always, he's right: www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In Sudan, "in the Gezira, farmers and agricultural workers have been organizing [for] a food sovereign future". Excellent analysis by Nisrin Elamin transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In Sudan, "in the Gezira, farmers and agricultural workers have been organizing [for] a food sovereign future". Excellent analysis by Nisrin Elamin transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
Amid the horrors of police killings in Rio, Timo Bartholl shares some hope: food sovereignty in the favelas. Yet another reason, if you don't yet, to subscribe to PI's The Internationalist. act.progressive.international/the-internat...
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Amid the horrors of police killings in Rio, Timo Bartholl shares some hope: food sovereignty in the favelas. Yet another reason, if you don't yet, to subscribe to PI's The Internationalist. act.progressive.international/the-internat...
Kerala has eradicated extreme poverty in a country with the greatest number of extremely poor people. But "poverty is continually being created and recreated under the institutions of capitalism." So after Kerala's win, what next? www.thenewsminute.com/voices/the-p...
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Kerala has eradicated extreme poverty in a country with the greatest number of extremely poor people. But "poverty is continually being created and recreated under the institutions of capitalism." So after Kerala's win, what next? www.thenewsminute.com/voices/the-p...