{"id":15576,"date":"2013-04-30T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:54:39","slug":"community-activism-farming-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/community-activism-farming-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Justice 12: Weeding Corporate Power out of Agricultural Policies – Communities Mobilize for Food and Farm Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Post #12 in the Harvesting Justice series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By Tory Field and Beverly Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the school cafeteria<\/a> to rural tomato farms, and all the way to pickets at the White House, people are challenging the ways in which government programs benefit big agribusiness<\/a> to the detriment of small- and mid-sized farmers. Urban gardeners<\/a>, PTA parents, ranchers, food coops, and a host of others are organizing to make the policies that govern our food and agricultural systems more just, accountable, and transparent. They are spearheading alternative policies on the local, state, national, and international levels. Some advances include the following:<\/p>\n