"Entire childhoods went by without families having a nearby grocery store."

Big grocery can use anti-competitive clauses to block other stores from entering a market. Rhode Island is the second state to ban that practice

By Amalia Bernardo    During my summer breaks, I’d work with my parents in the field. Before sunrise, I’d begin laying paper sheets between the rows of grapes so that […]

As food-borne illnesses like cyclospora spread through the US, lettuce from your local farmer is less likely to get you sick.

Position Title: Coalition Manager Location: remote – California FTE: .75-1 FTE Salary: $75,000-$90,000 Full-time DOE. Final offer will depend on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and qualif...

H.R. 1 SNAP cuts will reduce CalFresh benefits for thousands of immigrant families in California, increasing food insecurity and hunger.

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington

“California cannot allow its farms to become a new pipeline for forever chemicals into our food and soil.”

The changes are among the huge cuts to social safety programs in the U.S. enacted by President Donald Trump’s 2025 H.R. 1 spending bill, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

This week, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed legislation banning restrictive land covenants used by large retailers to block grocery stores and pharmacies from opening in properties they once oc...

As the midterms approach, Trump is touting lower prices, but Democrats say his policies favor corporations over consumers and farmers.

Agroecology is about farming well.  Agroecology is a good model that embraces complexity and adapts to regional and community realities. It does not want, or need, corporate control and influence to b...

California can take a creative approach to land policy that would foster a resilient food system and mobilize broad support.

February 6, 2026 Photo credit: Gayatri Malhotra The right to food is about creating and sustaining the conditions needed for everyone to access the food that meets their social, cultural, and nutritio...

ICE is waging war on the people who feed America. The food industry’s inaction is complicity.

The idea that people have a “right to food” in the U.S. is starting to gain some footing, as New Jersey makes a big move.

The average California farmworker earns an average salary of under $20,000 a year, and many farmworker families rely on food banks.

November 17, 2025The longest government shutdown in U.S. history revealed the precarity of one of our country's most effective anti-poverty measures. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pr...

The states argue that the Trump administration chose to suspend November’s SNAP benefits instead of using contingency funding that is available.

The California Food & Farming Network is made up of over sixty organizations from across the state striving to improve the food and farming system.

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s strategy addressing children’s health was billed as a way to address declining public health, with a particular focus on curtailing recent increases in chronic illness in children. However, under pre