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Why Food Waste Is Not a Solution to Hunger

By Andy Fisher, YES! magazine

Thus, the low cost of ingredients and labor enable food waste. And if the food industry is addicted to overproduction, then the emergency food system is its enabler.

Land is the Basis of Freedom, Justice, and Equality

By Izzy Baird, Food Tank

I actually grow and produce food. I like to lead by example, and I have found that while there are more conversations about food and food systems, those conversations often lack the voices of real farmers who are typically more comfortable working in the field than attending food conferences and posting on social media.

Black Farmers Reviving Their African Roots: “We Are Feeding Our Liberation”

By Kevon Paynter, YES! magazine

“Black people need to return to being growers, builders, and producers, so when we’re consuming, we’re also feeding one another, and we’re feeding our liberation,”

Black Neighbors Band Together to Bring in Healthy Food, Co-op-Style

By J. Gabriel Ware, YES! magazine

A decade ago, researchers reported that more than half of Detroit residents live in a food desert—an area where access to fresh and affordable healthy foods is limited because grocery stores are too far away. Efforts since then to bring more grocery stores—and food security—to predominantly Black neighborhoods haven’t worked. But that’s looking to change.

Food Justice in the Farm Economy Needs Community Capital

By Neil Thapar, Sustainable Economies Law Center

How can we secure food justice in the United States when 98% of all farmland is owned by White people? Successfully developing this future will rely on expanding access to capital for farmers of color beyond the conventional financing institutions that have, so far, failed to meet their needs.

How Do We End ‘Food Apartheid’ in America? With Farms Like This One

By Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Alternet

“Food apartheid is a human-created system of segregations, which relegates some people to food opulence and other people to food scarcity. It results in the epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other diet-related illnesses that are plaguing communities of color,” she explains.

Organizing Alternative Food Futures in the Peripheries of the Industrial Food System

By Sam Grant, Journal of Sustainability Education

Everywhere we look, whether in the Global North or Global South, we see people reclaiming an integral relationship with nature and each other through regenerative agriculture and regenerative community building strategies. Looking forward, there are many exciting intersections of regenerative agriculture and sustainability education to amplify.