By Staff, A Growing Culture, A Growing Culture
If a local food movement is about consumer empowerment, isolating from the complexity of global forces of injustice, increasing buying choices, or unchecked nostalgia and romanticization, then it is just another space where whiteness is prioritized and reproduced, and it cannot, in good faith, be conflated with ethicality or justice.
By Landworkers' Alliance Staff, Landworkers Alliance
FLAME is made up of young people who believe that the way we produce food and eat it can be a solution to creating a better world.
By Joy Carey, Angela Raffle, Going for Gold
Good food for everyone is a matter of social justice and if you’re not angry about the current inequalities then maybe you should be.
By Grace Gershuney, System Change not Climate Change
System Change Not Climate Change talks with Vermont-based author, educator, and grassroots activist Grace Gershuny about her vision for transforming the U.S. food system into one that is regenerative, just, and accessible to all.
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Dawn Sherman and her colleagues are committed to growing the Tanka brand against all odds, as part of their community service, she noted. “We’re more than a brand. It’s who we are,” she said. “We’re like the buffalo. We face the storm. Eventually the storm’s going to end.”
By Hal B. Klein, Health & Environmental Funders Network
A small group of new farmers have seeded a movement to change the local food industry. Will COVID-19's impact on the local economy set them back? Or will it — and the growing push for social justice — help?
By Oscar Perry Abello, Shareable
With the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering many food businesses temporarily or permanently, FoodLab Detroit has refocused on supporting surviving businesses that want to break the cycles of racist, exploitative, profit-first practices — such as tipping — that have long been taken for granted.
By Asher Craig, Going for Gold
It’s been said that “with great power comes great responsibility”. It’s now time for the food sector to demonstrate how the new normal is going to go beyond statements of solidarity.
By Chris Maughan, Colin Anderson, Moya Kneafsey, Agroecology Now!
Imagine a process in which food and farming policies were designed with social justice as the central tenet. What would such a process look like? Whose voices would be heard, and whose interests would be represented? What questions would need to be asked and how would we know that social justice had been addressed?
By Megan Browning, Agrarian Trust
In our work to build the Agrarian Commons, Agrarian Trust participates in this work: to confront systems and structures that have resulted in inequitable access to land, and thus impeded the most vulnerable and historically disadvantaged among us from having true control over their food supply.
By Leah Penniman, Oxford Real Farming Conference
Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices - from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative - have roots in African wisdom. Yet, Black farmers experience discrimination and marginalisation worldwide. Author, activist, farmer and founder of Soul Fire Farm in New York, Leah Penniman is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system.
By Karen Washington, Leah Penniman, Center for Humans and Nature
When the Center for Humans and Nature set out to shape a question on farming, we asked Karen Washington and Leah Penniman if they would be willing to have a conversation about their work.