As a progressive think tank, Food First produces books, reports, articles, films, electronic media, and curricula, plus interviews, lectures, workshops and academic courses for the public, policy makers, activists, the media, students, educators and researchers. It participates in activist coalitions and furnishes clearly written and carefully researched analyses, arguments and action plans for people who want to help change the world and reform the global food system from the bottom up. Food First's programs in sustainable agriculture challenge the dominant industrial agricultural system and promote locally grown food with social justice. Food First is on the steering committee of Californians for Pesticide Reform, a coalition of more than 70 nonprofit organizations working to ban the use of the most toxic pesticides in California. This, together with the Cuban Organic Agriculture Exchange Program, allows Food First to propose agroecological alternatives that work.
Topics range from co-ops to coffee production for export.
FoodFirst Human Rights program follows up on the World Food Summit and works with the UN Human Rights Commission to define the International Code of Conduct on food rights. It also supports international struggles around food by circulating urgent actions and hotlines to members via e-mail. Accepts contract research. Prof. Rosset, Peter, Executive Director.