I am Anthony Pahnke, an Associate Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University and Vice-President of the Family Farm Defenders, a member group of La Via Campesina/North America.
My research has appeared in journals such as New Political Science, International Studies Review, and The Journal of Agrarian Change. I am the author of Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement (2018), Agrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform (2023), The Promise of New Agricultural Markets: Addressing Contemporary Challenges in Domestic and International Agricultural Policy (2024), From “Climate-Smart” to “Climate-Just Agriculture:” International Institutions and Challenging False Solutions to our Ongoing Climate Crisis (2025) and Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change: Food Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States (2025). My popular writing on agriculture, immigration, and international politics have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Progressive, and The Hill, among other print and online publications. I have been active in small-scale farmer and farmworker organizations for a long time.
Anthony Pahnke 