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 corporatization of the food system, their commitment to international and Indigenous solidarity, and the struggles faced by women within the organization. I also question the lack of discussion about solidarity with migrant farmworkers. Overall, this is an important book that is useful for food system activists, students and scholars. 

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• Ellis, R., (2025), "Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.388)

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1. agrarian feminism
2. agroecology
3. alternative food movements
4. National Farmers Union
5. solidarity

Original publication: Ellis, Rebecca. "Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 99-101. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.388. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.