Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/09/2026IPES' 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 165
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/09/2026Join 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/ 152
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/09/2026My 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... 010
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 16/09/2026Heartbroken 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... 041
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 054
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/07/2026A 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... 031
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 22/07/2026Hamba 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... 010
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 02/07/2026Lights, 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 032
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 30/06/2026Congratulations 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... 072
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 29/06/2026Xenophobes 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... 040
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/06/2026The 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/... 043
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 08/06/2026Last 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-... 053
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 04/06/2026Loka 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 075
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 23/05/2026The 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... 022
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 05/05/2026Arizona 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... 000
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 01/05/2026progressive.international/wire/2026-05... If you're in the US, see you on the streets: maydaystrong.org 040
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 25/04/2026In 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. 020
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 25/04/2026In 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... 021
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 23/04/2026If 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... 020
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 21/04/2026In 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... 096
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... 041
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 010
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 10/04/2026Sergio Oceransky is out of jail, but not yet free. His press conference is now live here: www.facebook.com/CEPAD.GDL 041
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 07/04/2026A 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 166
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 03/04/2026Some excellent Cuba/Palestine solidarity posters reissued by Progressive International, including this favourite: an exchange of shamouti for sugar cane. progressive.international/wire/2026-04... 010
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 31/03/2026Carey Gillam reports the latest compendium of independent glyphosate studies, pointing to serious and long term health problems www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/scie... 065
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 31/03/2026They're not giving you food. They're giving you homework. SNAP restrictions and Food as Medicine prescriptions disagree about whether the poor deserve punishment or treatment — but agree it's the poor who are the problem. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/food-as-ho... 030
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 27/03/2026The Transnational Institute is on a roll. With the news that Colombia is exiting the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, a shadowy and powerful trade court, this guide to the ISDS in Latin America is well worth keeping to hand. www.tni.org/en/publicati... 011
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 23/03/2026The Gates Foundation, and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, don't seem to like it when they're held to their own standards. Tim Wise reports on the fate of an independent evaluation of their African work. www.theelephant.info/analysis/202... 052
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 11/03/2026I've just finished Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug's Living Roots, and it's an anthology for this moment, a chorus of hymns to our relationship to the land and, through it, to the rest of the web of life. Catch them at these events: landinstitute.org/news/living-... 040
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 09/03/2026Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—is unlikely to restock in time for the next soybean planting. Higher food prices will land in time for the US midterms. www.bloomberg.com/account/news... 051
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 07/03/2026One of the most terrifying graphs I've seen. The rate of global warming is going up, and far faster than feared. The heartbreak is that there's so much more we could have done. The hope is that we can can still do it. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1288
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 06/03/2026I'I've been getting a lot of calls about the industrial food system's vulnerability to fertilizer import shocks. Here's an interactive widget: slide through the months to see who imports what, when, and through which chokepoint. rajpatel.org/2026/03/06/f... Stop the war. Stop the dependency. 21511
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 05/03/2026You can't fix the care crisis without fixing the tax system. Fair taxing rights, corporate transparency, and progressive wealth taxation should fund care as a human right—not women's unpaid labor. Vol. lII of Framing Feminist Taxation Guide out now. globaltaxjustice.org/wp-content/u... 021
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 05/03/2026Want to help reduce gestational hypertension and diabetes? Make sure workers have, and use, their rights. Terrific new study shows how the Fair Food Program in Florida made *many* lives better. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... 020
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 04/03/2026Adam Calo and Madeleine Fairbairn expose the white supremacist tilt of USDA demands for California to abandon farmland equity. Vital reading in Civil Eats. civileats.com/2026/03/03/t... 030
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 03/03/2026The Strait of Hormuz is closed just as spring planting starts. Here's a quick illustrated guide on how 'warflation' will make your food more expensive later this year: newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/how-the-wa... 1139
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 02/03/2026This deep dive into the coordinated web of far-right politics is just starting. Find out more, and contribute, at reactionary.international 096
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/02/2026It's Amazon's world. Benjamin Y. Fong continues his wonderful journey to reveal how we're just living in it. The latest at Phenomenal World: The Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the... 052
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 25/02/2026🚨 New report from @IPESfood: Head In The Cloud Who controls innovation in agriculture? The report examines how Big Tech is reshaping farming – and highlights farmer-led alternatives already building resilience. 📖 Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-... #HeadInTheCloud 095
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20/02/2026Hamba kahle Susan George. Her 1988 Fate Worse than Debt connected so many dots for me. She offered clarity without jargon, rigour without deference, and a platform for scholarship in service of struggle at TNI. 91 years, very well lived. www.tni.org/en/article/s... 0114
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/02/2026I've started writing in a new place. It began with a walk along Waller Creek and a conversation about the three things that change the world. open.substack.com/pub/classwor... 032
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 16/02/2026Another Abahlali baseMjondolo leader assassinated in broad daylight in Gauteng, South Africa. Hamba kahle Khabazela Mkhize abahlali.org/node/18590/ www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/zwel... 041
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 11/02/2026Among the perils of opening India's agricultural market to United States business is the death of folklore. With the extinction of peasant lifeways comes the end of their songs and storytelling. It's the price of cheap milk. thewire.in/agriculture/... 072
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 10/02/2026These Haitian meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike against JBS anyway. Excellent Mother Jones x Food and Environment Reporting Network collab thefern.org/2026/02/thes... 053
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 31/01/2026Even without robust data for v small farms, a recent Nature Food article finds "very-small-scale (≤2 ha) and small-scale (>2–20 ha) farmers make a considerable contribution to national food consumption across all studied countries" www.nature.com/articles/s43... 0124
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 31/01/2026Farm Action's Angela Huffman looks behind the duel at the top of the land-ownership charts to ask what land concentration means for farming. But, just fyi, the US' largest landowner is no longer Bill Gates, it's Stan Kroenke. angelasuehuffman.substack.com/p/forget-bil... 120
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 30/01/2026Oops, they may or may not have done it again. ADM settle fraud allegations without admitting liability. But if you've not seen The Informant!, it's a terrific primer on agribusiness chicanery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inf...! 030
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 30/01/2026Correction: yesterday, I shared some info about SNAP and sent y'all to the wrong link to the get the full report from NIQ / FoodHealth.co - here it is, properly www.foodhealth.co/healthofamer... 010