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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Rather than funding climate adaptation and food security separately, funders could support Indigenous-led initiatives that combine traditional ecological knowledge with modern agricultural innovation to build both climate resilience and food sovereignty.

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Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm

NonProfit Quarterly

Exposed and At Risk: Opportunities to Strengthen Enforcement of Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety was recently released by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in partnership with the nonprofit Farmworker Justice.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

In its brief, the WHO traced the impact of prolonged droughts, which “ significantly disrupt agricultural production and lead to loss of livelihood, leaving many communities in poverty, a factor clearly linked with many common mental disorders.” This, in turn, can lead to forced migration as families attempt to flee conflict.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Girls get taken out of school to care for siblings and/or help with locating food and water, disrupting their education and future opportunities. 9 Furthermore, the impacts of climate change on food security, such as higher rates of anemia, disproportionately affect adolescent girls, further exacerbating educational disruptions.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

5 We won’t hazard a guess as to the psychology of androids, but we can say with certainty that corporate messages have entered human dreams. Farmworkers who cultivate our food would have a say in what is grown and produced, with environmental sustainability and community health, rather than profits for agricultural conglomerates, prioritized.

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Legislating the Future: European Youth Climate Activists at the Policy Table

NonProfit Quarterly

1 Many young people are suffering the effects of the ever-rising environmental degradation, not only in their communities but also on a psychological level: around the world, eco-anxiety is emerging as a primary cause of mental health concerns. 22 The EPP raised concerns that the law could lead to global famine and increased food prices.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. It’s captured by big agriculture, oil, or gas companies. AT: What does it mean to be human?