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

Braiding a Holistic, Healing Model for Agriculture

Bari ZeigerEnvironmental Resilience, Farmer Voices on Parity, Food Sovereignty

What is Parity, When and Why?

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

Death by a Thousand Cuts? The Enbridge Line 3 Oil Pipeline Project, Industrial Agriculture and the Need for Mutual Support

Doug Gurian-ShermanEnvironmental Resilience, Food Sovereignty, Racial Equity

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 for Diversified Family-Scale Produce Farms, Like Mine

Elizabeth HendersonFarmer Voices on Parity, Food Sovereignty

Parity Basics: What Parity Is and Is Not

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