Food, Fairness, and Permaculture Design
Throughout our existence, the human race has been responsible for creating tremendously harmful imbalances impacting both the living and non-living systems of earth.
food justice
Food Justice Truck Serves Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Asylum Seekers
A mobile fresh food market, the truck offers locally sourced fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, tea, and bread to asylum seekers at a 75% discount.
Will Allen: Food is About Social Justice
To Will Allen, food is more than just sustenance: it’s about social justice.
Sowing Seeds of Strength: Farmers of Color Tell Their Stories
“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.”
4 Innovative Community Food Projects Empowering Low-Income Residents
There are many community food organizations working hard to create a more sustainable and equitable food system.
Market Match: Making Fresh and Healthy Food Affordable
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.
Street food: A tale of three cities
Food security in cities is more a matter of access to food than the availability of food.
Looking Back to our Future
The problems with how we get our food are a microcosm of the problems with our economy.
Community Food Activists Tell Their Stories
It’s easy to dismiss issues facing people we don’t know and don’t see. Out of sight, out of mind. And if we don’t know any people grappling with hunger, that crisis can seem very abstract.
Food Justice: What it Means and Why We Need it
If everyone who touched food (including both farm workers and farmers) made enough money to pay for high quality food out of their wages, our food system would be on its way to greater fairness and long-term economic viability.
Food Co-ops, Food Hubs, and Food Democracy
The movement needs to refocus on its basic mission of empowering and mobilizing communities in need of healthy food and economic justice.
Italy’s “Slow Food” Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened into a Life’s Work
A basic tenet of Slow Food is that everyone on the planet should have the right and access to good, clean, and fair food.