Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

This review examines Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future, a new book about the activism of the National Farmers Union (NFU) over the past five decades. In this review I highlight the impact of the NFU in campaigns against the corpora...

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Published in:	Canadian Food Studies
Main Author:	Rebecca Ellis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Waterloo 2020-11-01
Subjects:	agroecology; national farmers union; agrarian feminism; solidarity; alternative food movements
Online Access:	https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/388

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