The phrase “food is political” pops up all the time in the food and farm movement world, and has particular weight right now as we head toward the finish line of this incredibly fraught and consequential election season. So what, exactly, does it mean?  

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for everyone, essential workers have been hit especially hard. Farmworkers are some of the most impacted, as they cope with the pandemic on top of the many systemic injustices already embedded in our food and farming system.  

In January, PAN’s Executive Director Kristin Schafer joined partners in the Protect Our Keiki coalition to celebrate opening day of the state legislature in Hawai‘i. The annual event draws hundreds of people from across the islands — including busloads of students — who come to

For over a decade, PAN has worked with partner groups in our key states to test the air for pesticide drift using a device called the Drift Catcher. We launched the latest round of drift-catching in California a little over a year ago, and are

The U.S. election season is well underway and, as the past few years have shown, we know elections matter. From food access and nutrition programs to corporate consolidation and immigration policy, elections determine much about the food we eat, how the people producing food are

Our food and agriculture system is responsible for more climate change-contributing emissions than all the trucks, planes, trains and cars on the planet combined. At the same time, we’re confronted with evidence that climate change is wreaking havoc on agricultural production—and unraveling systems of the