World Farmers: A Model of Community-Driven Parity

World FarmersEconomic Justice, Food Sovereignty, Racial Equity

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Land Occupations, Parity, Community

Anthony PahnkeEconomic Justice, History of Parity

Reflections on the World’s Largest and Longest Protest: Parity as the Unifying Call

Daljit Kaur SoniEconomic Justice, Farmer Voices on Parity

What is Parity, When and Why?

Brad WilsonEconomic Justice, Farmer Voices on Parity, History of Parity

How the Lack of Parity Supports Industrial Livestock Production

Siena ChrismanEconomic Justice, Environmental Resilience

The end of parity pricing and supply management farm programs was a huge boon for agribusiness, particularly the meat industry. As the farm programs were dismantled, farmer grain prices fell to well under the cost of production, giving the meatpacking industry access to below-cost feed grain. Cheap feed was – and still is – a critical component of industrial confinement-based meat production.

Parity Basics: What Parity Is and Is Not

George NaylorEconomic Justice, Farmer Voices on Parity, History of Parity

Parity: Re-Establishing the Human Relationship with Nature Through Community-Based Family-Scale Farms

Patti NaylorEconomic Justice, Farmer Voices on Parity, History of Parity

US Interventionism, Climate Change and Organizing Low-Wage Food Chain Workers: An Interview with Jose Oliva

Jose OlivaEconomic Justice, Racial Equity

Dairy Together: Building a Farmer-Led Movement for Supply Management

Sarah E. LloydEconomic Justice, Farmer Voices on Parity