US Food Justice
Food justice sees the lack of healthy food in poor communities as a human rights issue and draws from grassroots struggles and US organizing traditions such as the civil rights and environmental justice movements.
Food Policy Councils: Lessons learned
Development Report | Alethea Harper, Alison Alkon, Annie Shattuck, Eric Holt-Giménez and Frances Lambrick | Dec 1, 2009
The central aim of most Food Policy Councils is to identify and propose innovative solutions to improve local or state food systems.
Cultivating the Commons: Assessing the potential for urban agriculture on Oakland’s public land
Policy Brief | Jenny Cooper and Nathan McClintock | Oct 1, 2009
This project aims to locate Oakland’s “commons”—land that is owned by public agencies—and assess the potential for urban agriculture on this land.
Democracy in Action: Food Policy Councils
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Food First | Oct 1, 2009
While food policy planning is still in its infancy, Food Policy Councils provide a hopeful model for creating a more sustainable, democratic food system.
Food System Meta-Analysis for the San Francisco Bay Area
Development Report | Amy Parente and Heather Wooten | Mar 2, 2009
Few studies to date have used a “food system” framework to approach food security, food retail, or other community food issues.
Oakland Food Retail Impact Study
Development Report | Hannah Laurison and Nella Young | Feb 1, 2009
How will Oakland’s long-underserved neighborhoods be affected by the arrival of those two very different food retail formats?
The Food Crisis Comes Home: Empty Food Banks, Rising Costs, Hungrier Nation
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Annie Shattuck, Heidi Conner, Juliana Mandell and Meera Velu | Oct 1, 2008
Food banks are seeing more demand while donations have dropped precipitously.
US Farm Subsidies and the Farm Economy: Myths, Realities, Alternatives
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Karl Beitel | Jul 5, 2005
Over the last five years, groups spanning the ideological spectrum have come out in opposition to US and EU farm subsidies.
Rights Fight: Local Democracy Vs. Factory Farms in Pennsylvania
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Adam D. Sacks | Apr 1, 2005
In 1998, Central Pennsylvania looked like an attractive target for agribusiness.
Breaking Ground: The Community Food Security Movement
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Christine Ahn | Dec 1, 2004
A diverse network of activists across America have begun organizing for a just food system that benefits consumers and farmers.
Beyond the Food Bank
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Brahm Ahmadi and Chrsitine Ahn | Oct 1, 2004
In 2002, 3.5 million people in the United States--the world's richest nation and largest food exporter--worried about where their next meal was coming from.
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