MCC-Penn Valley Common Read: The Chain

The center is part of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a nonprofit, nonpartisan global affairs organization, which since 2009 has annually convened a task force that releases findings and recommendations for tackling challenges in global food security. In addition to these annual reports, the council publishes regionally and topically focused briefs.

Cultivate Kansas City is a locally-grown nonprofit working to grow food, farms, and community in support of a sustainable and healthy local food system for all.

Farming Future Bangladesh (FFB) is a comprehensive communication and community engagement organization, aimed to improve access to modern agricultural innovations for sustainable food security in Bangladesh. Based in Dhaka, it operates under the auspices of the Cornell Alliance for Science, an initiative of Cornell University, USA, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. FFB shares evidence-based information about social, economic, and environmental benefits of modern agricultural innovations including application of biotechnology to breed crops, especially those that can boost the nutritional content of staple foods, such as rice enriched with vitamins and minerals.

The Heartland Center for Jobs & Freedom creates opportunities for workers to learn and exercise their rights, realize their collective power, and develop the leadership skills necessary to advocate for a racially and economically just society.

The official website of Hormel Foods.

Created by the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, the Indigenous Food Systems Network website serves as a hub for Indigenous food and food sovereignty related resources and research.

The IWW is a worker-led union dedicated to direct action, workplace democracy, and industrial unionism.

Written by humanitarian, author, and Secretary-General at World Muslim Leadership Forum Husna Ahmad, Islamic Farming: A Toolkit for Conservation Agriculture fuses sustainable farming practices and Islamic principles, especially the idea that Muslims should be stewards of the Earth. Much of the content is based on agricultural innovations developed by Islamic cultures in the past which are still applicable today, such as water-conserving irrigation methods, crop rotation, agroforestry, and beekeeping.

The Missouri Rural Crisis Center (MRCC) is a statewide farm and rural membership organization founded in 1985 with over 5600 member families. MRCC continues to organize to preserve family farms and independent family farm livestock production, prevent environmental degradation, promote stewardship of the land and a safe, affordable high- quality food supply, create affordable and accessible healthcare systems and defend justice and economic opportunity for both rural and urban communities.

RCWA is a worker-led organization dedicated to empowering, educating, and organizing refugee and immigrant workers from the food industry to address their needs and concerns in the workplace and in the communities where they reside.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a national nonprofit organization founded more than 50 years ago by scientists and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Their mission is to use rigorous, independent science to solve our planet's most pressing problems.

Women Who Farm Africa is an Initiative for rural women farmers established to engage, empower and encourage these indispensable farmers in the fight against hunger and hidden hunger.