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- Recent feature articles and interviews
 Patchwork Family Farms:
Feeding Farm Aid
by Jessica Plance
Hartford, Connecticut
Published in In Motion Magazine December 4, 2021
 The Devil’s in the Details:
USDA Owes Independent Processors Clear Commitments
by Tim Gibbons
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine December 3, 2021
 Will Joe Biden’s Executive Order
Spark Real Change In Food Production?
by Darvin Bentlage
Barton County, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine September 19, 2021
 Missourians Need To Make Their Voices Heard About The Future Of The Farm And Food System
by Tim Gibbons
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine July 1, 2021
 Family Farms Are The Solution,
Corporate Agriculture Is The Problem
by Tim Gibbons
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine May 29, 2021
 Missouri’s Groundwater Threatened By Corporate Factory Farm Expansion
A Call to Action and a Victory
by Tim Gibbons
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine May 29, 2021
- Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture:
We Need Change, Not Corporate Ag’s Best Friend
by Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine December 13, 2020
 Interview with David Ciepley
Government by Corporation:
The Mythology of the Stockholder as the Owner
Part 1: The Corporation as a Governance Technology
Part 2: The Business Corporation
Part 3: The Governance of Collective Power
Uppsala, Sweden
Published in In Motion Magazine December 13, 2020
 Meatpacking Corporations Cash in on Pandemic
While Family Farms and Consumers Foot the Bill
"We need a democratic, decentralized industry"
by Barb Kalbach, Jefferson Jones
John Harter, Darrel Mosel
Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Minnesota
Published in In Motion Magazine September 19, 2020
- Pandemic Disastrous to Family Cattle Producers
"The pandemic has put corporate control
of our protein production supply into the spotlight"
by Darvin Bentlage
Columbia, Missouri
 Interview with Roger Allison
Economic Sustainability in Rural Missouri
Armstrong, Howard County, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine April 11, 2020
 Interview with Rhonda Perry
Local Control or the Corporatizing of Rural America
Armstrong, Howard County, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine February 22, 2020
- A Brief History of the White Nationalist Movement
A Talk by Leonard Zeskind
Published in In Motion Magazine September 12, 2019
 CAFO Summit Report
Taking Action Against Corporate-Controlled Factory Farms
CAFO Summit Picture Project
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine April 13, 2019
 Interview with Alejandro Nadal
The Key Organizing Principle of Society:
Macroeconomics – Markets or Sustainability
Part 1: The Myth of the Invisible Hand
Part 2: The Day That Capitalism Changed Forever
Mexico City, Mexico
Published in In Motion Magazine December 3, 2018
 Rural Missourians Vote in Large Number to Restore Ethics and Strengthen Rural Economies
by Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine November 22, 2018
- Interview of Adam Payne
of the Landworkers’ Alliance
Change in Rural Culture, Small Farms, and Hedgerows
West Dorset, England
Published in In Motion Magazine March 24, 2018
- Interview with Finlay Matheson
Crofting: The Concept That
There Should Be Lights in the Glen Again
Strathcarron, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Published in In Motion Magazine March 24, 2018
 Interview of Duncan and Kath Fraser with Fiona Mackenzie
Crofting: In This Strategic Place
Toscaig Township, Applecross Peninsula,
Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Published in In Motion Magazine February 17, 2018
 Interview with Iain MacKinnon
The Cultural Norms of Crofting:
The Recovery of the Story and Voices of the Economy,
the Understanding, and the Life of a People
Edinburgh, Scotland
Published in In Motion Magazine February 4, 2018
 Interview with Fiona Mandeville
of the Scottish Crofting Federation
A Hegemony of Helping and Looking Out for People,
Kyle of Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Published in In Motion Magazine September 25, 2017
 Interview with Jadwiga Lopata and Sir Julian Rose
Of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside
The Small and Middle Family Farm:
A Base for Poland to be Independent,
and a Base for Good Quality Food
Stryszów, Poland
Published in In Motion Magazine August 1, 2017
 "Family Farm Livestock" Farm Camp
Growing the Local Food Chain in Missouri
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Howard County, Missouri
 Interview with Francisca Rodriguez of ANAMURI and La Vía Campesina
Part 1
Making Visible the Work and Participation of Women
Part 2
Recuperating Consciousness / A Space for Exchange
Santiago, Chile
 The TPP is Dangerous
And A Direct Attack on U.S. Farmers
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
- La Via Campesina Declaration on Trade, Markets and Development
"Globally, more than 80% of smallholders operate in local and domestic food markets"
by La Via Campesina
Nairobi, Kenya
Published in In Motion Magazine July 31, 2016
 Missouri’s Cattle Producers Overwhelmingly
Reject New Missouri Beef Checkoff
75% of Registered Producers Voted No
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine May 1, 2016
- Climate: Real Problem, False Solutions
GMOs, Agrofuels, REDD+, Climate Smart Agriculture
La Via Campesina
Published in In Motion Magazine December 6, 2015
 My Road to Anicca Acres
"... my desire to connect with the world in a healing way melded with the idea of food justice"
by Benjamin Cossel
San Diego, California
Published in In Motion Magazine December 6, 2015
 "You Are Destroying the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources"
"... we will continue to create our own multilateral systemfor exchange between peasants"
by Farmer and Gardener organizations around the world
Rome, Italy
Published in In Motion Magazine October 10, 2015
- JBS-Cargill Merger
Causes Greater Concentration of Pork Industry
Further Harming Farmers and Consumers
American Antitrust Institute, Food & Water Watch, Iowa Farmers Union,
Missouri Rural Crisis Center and National Farmers Union
Columbia, Missouri and Washington, D.C.
Published in In Motion Magazine August 1, 2015
- Governor Nixon Sells Out Missouri Cattle Farmers
& Creates Loophole to Allow Foreign Corporations
to Buy More Missouri Farmland
by Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
- Declaration of The International Forum for Agroecology (2015)
"We see agroecology as a key form of resistance to an economic system that puts profit before life"
Sélingué, Mali
- 2014 End-of-Year Update
(PDF file)
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
- Rural Lives Matter:
Medicaid Expansion May Be Controversial But It Will Save Rural Lives
... affordable health insurance and healthcare infrastructure in rural communities
by Rhonda Perry
Columbia, Missouri
- Urban Agriculture Gets Boost in Oakland
“It’s about empowerment and self-reliance,
communities growing their own food”
Victory for Urban Farms and Gardens
at the Oakland City Council
Two articles by Paul Rockwell
Oakland, California
- UN-masking Climate Smart Agriculture
History presents itself first as tragedy,
and the second time as a farce
by La Via Campesina
New York, New York
Published in In Motion Magazine September 23, 2014
- Hungry For Land:
Small Farmers Feed The World With Less Than A Quarter Of All Farmland
by GRAIN
Barcelona, Spain
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- Fast Track/Big Bad Trade Deal Threatens Local Control, Family Farms
The TPP Agreement Would Elevate Multinational Corporations To The Same Legal Status As Sovereign Nations
by Jim Compton
Buffalo, Missouri
- 2013 End-of-Year Update
(PDF file)
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine - December 16, 2013
- Marching Against Monsanto and the Corporate Oligarchy
by James Bartoli
San Diego, California
Published in In Motion Magazine June 3, 2013
- Enough Of These Crises!
From the Growing Discussion About Food
by Nic Paget-Clarke
San Diego, California
Published in In Motion Magazine June 3, 2013
- Stop the CAFO/Monsanto Protection Bill
Local Control & the Future of Missouri Farming
and Food is at Stake
Call Your Senator TODAY!!!
Vote NO on HJR 7&11 and SJR 22
by Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine April 8, 2013
- Our Position -- On Livestock, Rural Communities & the Economy (Also available as a PDF version)
by Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine November 18, 2012
- Surin Declaration:
First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Peasant Seeds
Surin, Thailand
Published in In Motion Magazine November 16, 2012
- Convention on Biological Diversity:
Farmers Demand an End to the Commercialization of Biodiveristy, GM Seeds and Synthetic Biology
by La Vía Campesina
Hyderabad, India
Published in In Motion Magazine November 3, 2012
- The report "Industrial Livestock at the Taxpayer Trough:
How Large Hog and Dairy Operations are Subsidized by the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program" (PDF)
- The report "Healthcare in the Heartland" (PDF)
- Debate on Trade / Agriculture Policy
- Farm Bill Articles
- Full list of articles and interviews (210)
Local Control
- Meatpacking Corporations Cash in on Pandemic
While Family Farms and Consumers Foot the Bill
"We need a democratic, decentralized industry"
by Barb Kalbach, Jefferson Jones
John Harter, Darrel Mosel
Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Minnesota
Published in In Motion Magazine September 19, 2020
- Interview with Rhonda Perry
Local Control or the Corporatizing of Rural America
Armstrong, Howard County, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine February 22, 2020
- Fast Track/Big Bad Trade Deal Threatens Local Control, Family Farms
The TPP Agreement Would Elevate Multinational Corporations To The Same Legal Status As Sovereign Nations
by Jim Compton
Buffalo, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine June 16, 2014
Stop the CAFO/Monsanto Protection Bill
Local Control & the Future of Missouri Farming
and Food is at Stake
Call Your Senator TODAY!!!
Vote NO on HJR 7&11 and SJR 22
by Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Columbia, Missouri
Published in In Motion Magazine April 8, 2013
- What Is The Growing Discussion About Food?
by James Bartoli
San Diego, California
- Family Farm Legislative Update:
Local Control Wins, Property Rights Lose
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