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,”
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Anna Rohleder, Sustainable Food Trust
What makes food sustainable?
By Judith Gerber, Seedstock
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By Judith Gerber, Seedstock
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By Stephanie Fenton, Seedstock
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By Narendra Varma, Slow Money Journal
Our real task is to change the culture and the only way to do that is to change ourselves.
By Jocelyn Kerr, Seedstock
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By Abbie Stutzer, Seedstock
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