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By Leah Penniman, YES! magazine
These Black farmers don’t stop at healthy food. They’re healing trauma, instilling collective values, and changing the way their communities think about the land.
By Stephanie Van Dyke, Food Tank
The Massachusetts Avenue Project in Buffalo, New York, is fostering healthy food access opportunities and social change education for young adults.
By Anna Rohleder, Sustainable Food Trust
There are many community-based programmes as well that make it possible for a variety of low-income populations to benefit by buying from farmers’ markets in the US, giving farmers a boost too.
By Geoff Lawton, Transition Culture
Throughout our existence, the human race has been responsible for creating tremendously harmful imbalances impacting both the living and non-living systems of earth.
By Cat Johnson, Shareable
A mobile fresh food market, the truck offers locally sourced fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, tea, and bread to asylum seekers at a 75% discount.
By Karen Rybold-Chin, on the earth productions
To Will Allen, food is more than just sustenance: it’s about social justice.
By Danielle Arostegui, Yardfarmers blog
“The chosen story for people of color in agriculture seems to play out on repeat, reducing our agrarian identity to slavery or farm labor and summing up our communities as deserts in need of water and food. But I know our story is so much richer than that.”
By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch
There are many community food organizations working hard to create a more sustainable and equitable food system.
By Brie Mazurek, Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
Started by Roots of Change in 2009 and now administered by the Berkeley-based Ecology Center, Market Match is a statewide healthy food incentive program that aims to improve the health of low-income communities by incentivizing shoppers to buy produce at farmers markets.