March/April 2015

Retirement Savings in the Dark

For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system?

These Things Can Change

Text by David Bacon and Rosario Ventura
photos by David Bacon

Migrant farmworkers stand up in Washington State | Read more »
Maine Farmers and Climate Change

Stephanie Welcomer, Mark Haggerty,
and John Jemison

Reactive, or Proactive? | Read more »
Seeds of Change

Elizabeth Fraser and Anuradha Mittal

Corporate Power, Grassroots Resistance, and the Battle Over the Food System | Read more »
The Great Land Giveaway in Mozambique

Timothy A. Wise

It turns out to be easier to get a government to give away a farmer’s land than it is to actually farm it. | Read more »
The Failure of Industrial Agriculture

John Ikerd

Agricultural industrialization has had a devastating effect on the quality of rural life, and has failed in its most fundamental purpose: providing food security. | Read more »