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Raj Patel

@rajpatel.org
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Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/09/2026
IPES' excellent study on workers in the food system is out Monday 5 October. Join Olivier De Schutter, Sue Longley (former General Secretary of IUF-UITA-IUL), Sumitha Kishna (Founding Director of Our Journey Malaysia) and me! lnkd.in/euNkniRE
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/09/2026
I'm on a sidequest to read everything Richard Flanagan has published, and this brilliant essay in Equator explains why: www.equator.org/articles/gaz...
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The New McCarthyism • EQUATOR
How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 18/09/2026
The good folk at Terra Madre have released another block of (free) tickets to join Edward Mukibi, Thin Wei Lin, Jessica Duncan and me next Friday. Looking forward to talking about communism and Slow Food! 2026.terramadresalonedelgusto.com/en/event/foo...
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Food Justice and the Taste for Power - Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2026
Today’s food system claims to feed everyone, yet contrary to its promises, it leaves many people hungry. We explore it in this session.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/09/2026
Join Morgan Ody, of La Via Campesina, Ruth Nabaggala of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Sofía Monsalve (and me) for the launch of the Agribusiness Atlas, 30th September. 327262.eu2.cleverreach.com/m/17376621/
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/09/2026
My copy of @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social 's End Times Fascism arrived today -very excited to dive in to the extended analysis. A taster here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 16/09/2026
Heartbroken to learn that Abahlali baseMjondolo's deputy president, George Mqapheli Bonono, is gravely ill. He's an incredible leader, friend and visionary. peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/21/p...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 15/09/2026
The Rise and Fall of America's Exorbitant Privilege I'm working through some ideas on the end of American hegemony. Here's a piece from my Substack. Keen for more? Subscribe here. Adam Tooze’s recent post...
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The Rise and Fall of America's Exorbitant Privilege
I'm working through some ideas on the end of American hegemony. Here's a piece from my Substack. Keen for more? Subscribe here. Adam Tooze’s recent post pointed me to an...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 15/09/2026
For a reasoned and exacting take on how South Africa's xenophobia sets the poor against the poor, see Abahlali general secretary Thapelo Mohapi's moving interview in Amandla www.amandla.org.za/amandla103/
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Setting the poor against the poor - Amandla
With local government elections approaching and anti-migrant mobilisation growing, the central concern of this issue is how anger at poverty, unemployment and collapsing public services is being…
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 10/09/2026
The Edible Empire podcast is now available in its entirety, along with study guides for high schoolers and university students. Useful last-minute syllabus material! thesalmonandthetomato.org/edibleempire...
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Edible Empire Podcast | The Salmon and the Tomato
Discover the hidden costs of our food supply chains. Join experts and hosts to uncover the social and environmental impacts of global food imperialism.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 09/09/2026
'Food Social Security' has been around for a while in the Francophone world. Spain's even running an experiment. For English speakers, Gaëtan Vanloqueren and I put together a short introduction in Nature Food, out today. rdcu.be/rHXaD9LgjY8a
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Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future @livablefuture.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Episode 34 is out now! Food system scholar @rajpatel.org cuts through the mess of the industrial food system and points us toward a better future. clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-p...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/08/2026
“Farm to fork” smuggles a faulty metaphor, a journey from seed to harvest. For many, the food systems means having to stay very firmly in place. The idea of 'food circuits' helps make that clearer. New writing with Seth Holmes in SciencePolitics sciencepolitics.org/2026/08/19/f...
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‘Farm to Fork’ Misses a Key Ingredient of the Food System: Families - Science Politics
Extended transnational families form a core, essential part of the food system, making possible a multi-billion dollar agricultural industry. Whether family members are forced to move or forced to…
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 07/08/2026
The death toll of H5N1 in Australia looks catastrophic. One in five birds and mammals are vulnerable, and some species will suffer apocalyptic population loss. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... www.theage.com.au/environment/...
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Penguins and dolphins among nearly 400 Australian species under threat from bird flu as ‘true extent of disaster’ revealed
Assessment of more than 2,000 native species warns nearly one in five at high risk of deadly H5N1, including parrots, fur seals and quolls
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 07/08/2026
The victory against Walmart in Mississauga deserves far more play than it's getting in the media. Benjamin Y. Fong explains why, in this excellent piece in Phenomenal World. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wal...
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Benjamin Y. Fong | Walmart Concedes to the Union
North America's largest employer grants a first for its workers: an adversarially-bargained union contract
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 06/08/2026
Cristina Rivera Garza is an incredible talent. I'm very excited to read her recently translated Autobiography of Cotton, covered here by Tony Wood. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Tony Wood, Submerged Legacies — Sidecar
Cristina Rivera Garza’s ‘Autobiography of Cotton’.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/07/2026
A recent attack on Marion Nestle starts to make sense if you're far less kind to the Make America Healthy Again movement than Marion has been. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/marion-and...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 22/07/2026
Hamba Kahle Njoki Njehu - Njoki and her partner Soren Ambrose, who died in 2020, were such vital forces in the alter globalisation scene in the 2000s. I'm deeply grateful for all they taught me. globaljusticeecology.org/rest-in-powe...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 02/07/2026
Lights, Camera, Authoritarianism! Progressive.International's Reactionary International dossier has a fantastic new entry, on national chauvinism on film and phone, from India to Israel to Hungary to the US. buff.ly/yGlB6dc
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 01/07/2026
The flames of xenophobia in South Africa are burning. Yesterday's deadline for exodus could have been far worse, but things still looking grim. Richard Pithouse is excellent on this Al Jazeera panel. aje.news/34io1l
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How is South Africa dealing with immigration?
Anti-migrant groups had given a deadline to undocumented foreigners to leave by June 30.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 30/06/2026
Armed xenophobic groups are moving through poor and working-class neighbourhoods in South Africa right now. Progressive.International is fundraising for Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Congolese Solidarity Campaign's efforts to get people to safety. Please help if you can. chuffed.org/project/stan...
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Support Migrants Facing Far-Right Xenophobia Terror in South Africa
Right now, South Africa is witnessing a coordinated campaign of xenophobic violence — led by March and March, a Durban-based anti-migrant organisation aligned with the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP),…
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 30/06/2026
Congratulations Neal Haddaway and team on the launch of Edible Empire, a new podcast on the hidden costs of our food system, from food imperialism to the fight for something fairer. I’m excited for the series, and to hear the episode I’m in! thesalmonandthetomato.org/edibleempire...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 29/06/2026
Xenophobes declared a June 30 deadline for migrants to leave South Africa. Abahlali baseMjondolo secretary-general Thapelo Mohapi went viral with this piece about the last time xenophobia burned across the country. iol.co.za/news/opinion...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/06/2026
The connection between the violence in Belfast and the humanitarian disaster in Durban isn't an accident. Progressive International have sent an alert. Here's some background. open.substack.com/pub/classwor... progressive.international/observatory/...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 18/06/2026
David Bacon's black and white photography is always heartstopping. Use it to find out about what Coachella was before it was #Coachella, out now in the excellent US rural news source BarnRaiser barnraisingmedia.com/for-coachell...
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For Coachella Farmworkers, the Grape Strikes of the 20th Century Cast a Long Shadow
Bending his stiff joints, he took a shovel and, in the weeds, dug out the entrance to a mole burrow to show me how he placed the trap. The sun on the brim of his sombrero cast dark shadows across his…
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/06/2026
Operation Dudula & March and March set a 30 June deadline for migrants to leave #SouthAfrica. ~10,000 are now penned in a Durban field — and the state's response is to deport them, not protect them. The world's gaze is Pretoria's weak spot. Don't look away. mg.co.za/news/south-a...
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Xenophobia sparks humanitarian crisis: 8000 gather at Durban transit site
Over 8000 Malawian nationals have gathered at Durban's Sherwood Community Hall, seeking repatriation after a wave of xenophobia and violence in South Africa. The situation is tense, with residents…
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 08/06/2026
Last week saw the funeral of Edgar Morin, who coined #polycrisis. He meant it as an indictment of compartmentalized, technocratic, elite thinking. Its second life has been stranger: a sophisticated ¯\(ツ)/¯ for those who cry 'fire!' while letting it burn. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/where-the-...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 04/06/2026
Loka Ashwood and team have an incredible dataset on who owns what in agribusiness. Shells, subsidiaries, and executives are catalogued and linked. A gift for anyone curious about who, exactly, runs the world food system. acre.wisc.edu/big-ag-network
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 29/05/2026
Joy's Great Democrat Here's an appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics from my newsletter. If you're not signed up, join in here! Carlo Petrini died on the evening of 21 May,...
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Joy's Great Democrat
Here's an appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics from my newsletter. If you're not signed up, join in here! Carlo Petrini died on the evening of 21 May, at...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 23/05/2026
The anti-Congolese xenophobia in Durban is horrific. It's particularly scandalous that one of the parties fanning the flames was invited to the SACP's conference. More here: progressive.international/movement/art... richardpithouse.substack.com/p/a-moment-o...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 23/05/2026
Dzonot & Toh UPDATE: Please sign this petition to support Sergio Oceransky Beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula there is a waterworld. The cenotes — a Spanish word derived from the Mayan dzonot, meaning abyss — form...
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Dzonot & Toh
UPDATE: Please sign this petition to support Sergio Oceransky Beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula there is a waterworld. The cenotes — a Spanish word derived from the Mayan dzonot, meaning abyss — form a...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 11/05/2026
I don't often circulate petitions, but this one could do with 15 seconds of your time. Sergio Oceransky's persecutors don't like the limelight and your attention can bring it to them. c.org/W4pJ9g9pjv
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Firma la petición
Stop the Criminalization of Sergio Oceransky, Human Rights and Environmental Defender
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 05/05/2026
Arizona leads the way in SNAP enrollment declines as the US government makes it harder than ever for working people to access food. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 05/05/2026
Remember Covid? The next pandemic could emerge from industrial factory farms being funded by the World Bank Group (IFC). 📽️Watch the video and share >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79p...
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Who is Funding Factory Farming? | World Bank’s Hidden Role in Climate Crisis
When we talk about climate change, most people think about fossil fuels. But there’s another major driver that often gets overlooked: factory farming. Industrial livestock production is fueling…
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 01/05/2026
progressive.international/wire/2026-05... If you're in the US, see you on the streets: maydaystrong.org
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As war and political turmoil disrupt fertilizer and fuel supplies globally, agroecology is a way to build resilience in a destabilized world. Listen to episode two of Agroecology Uprooted now! www.iatp.org/agroecology-...
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Agroecology Uprooted Episode Two: Growing Resilience
Around the world, farmers adopting agroecological practices are rebuilding their soil, growing an abundance of food, and decreasing their reliance on external inputs. As war and political turmoil disr...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 27/04/2026
One element of the of the polycrisis is violence, and peasants have always been on its front lines. The brilliant Jun Borras and Maria Malaya de la Tierra explain www.tni.org/en/article/c...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 25/04/2026
In the US war on the poor, the rich are scoring one victory after another. Most recently, following Trump's bill, enrollment in food assistance is falling at the same time as prices are rising and wages are falling behind.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 25/04/2026
In the US, there are plenty of reasons to oppose the upcoming Farm Bill, the SNAP cuts foremost among them. The National Young Farmers Coalition lists them, and makes it easy to contact representatives to express outrage: youngfarmers.quorum.us/campaign/HR7...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 23/04/2026
If a worker earned Rs 10000 per month in 2015, they would need Rs 15,466 per month in 2026. Most earn far less. Excellent reporting from Anumeha Yadav themigrationstory.com/post/our-wag...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 21/04/2026
In 2003, Florida produced 242 million boxes of oranges... 25 years later it's 12 million. Why? Climate change, private equity, disease, developers. A brilliant long-read slate.com/business/202...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20/04/2026
Canadians! If you're curious about public groceries, you need to join this A-list deep dive, later this week. fcn-rcn.ca/uncategorize...
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Public Grocery Stores Webinar – Food Communities Network
Join this webinar brought to you by Food Communities Network and Food Secure Canada to dive deep into a public option for grocery stores.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20/04/2026
"All gains, countless improvements, and not a single concession" Meatpackers' strike against JBS wins! www.foodmanufacturing.com/labor/news/2...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 16/04/2026
🚌 Fast buses. 🏙️ Green social housing. ⚡ Public utilities. 🛠️Union-made batteries. What do these all have in common? They’re part of a winning strategy for a Working Class Climate Agenda. Climate+Community has the details: stopgreedbuildgreen.org
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 11/04/2026
If you're in Toronto next month, come say hi. I'll be at the Culinaria Research Centre and other fine folk, trying out some new ideas. Tix are free, get 'em here: www.eventbrite.com/e/raj-patel-...
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Raj Patel on "The Polycrisis and its Gravediggers"
A talk with activist and scholar Raj Patel on community climate change resilience.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 10/04/2026
Sergio Oceransky is out of jail, but not yet free. His press conference is now live here: www.facebook.com/CEPAD.GDL
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 07/04/2026
A cookbook that serves as a memorial to those killed by state violence and a tribute to the women who fed them, Para el Alma is thoroughly beautiful, and well worth supporting if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/para-el-alma
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 06/04/2026
Sergio Oceransky, a land defender in Yucatan has been arrested, and there's reason to worry that local land-grabbing families wish him ill in prison. Solidarity campaign news coming soon... 24horasyucatan.mx/2026/04/06/d...
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Detienen a defensor del territorio y comunidades en Yucatán alzan la voz - Diario 24 Horas Yucatán
Colectivos mayas respaldan a Sergio Oceransky tras su detención y denuncian criminalización contra la Fundación Yansa A.C.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 03/04/2026
Some excellent Cuba/Palestine solidarity posters reissued by Progressive International, including this favourite: an exchange of shamouti for sugar cane. progressive.international/wire/2026-04...
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NYC Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Today, @grocerynerd.bsky.social & @rajpatel.org discuss how private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself and how the Mamdani Admin can avoid these pitfalls! nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/three-thin...
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Three Ways the Public Grocery Experiment Could Fail | Errol Schweizer & Raj Patel
How private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 01/04/2026
Errol Schweizer's interview with Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, is required reading on the JBS strike.
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Grocery Update #146: Why JBS Meat Packing Workers Are Still On Strike.
"This is a fight led by immigrant workers, by a female president, taking on the largest food producer in the world."
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