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.
The following is an excerpt, reprinted with permission, from Chant Down Babylon: Building Relationship, Leadership, and Power in the Food Justice Movement…
Every single one of the 200-odd food policy councils in North America has its own, distinct flavor. Some have been…
Moderator’s Note: It is our privilege to present a guest blog prepared by Jacqueline A. Smith, a Chicago-based urban farmer…
The public outcry following the decision of the grand jury of St. Louis County, Missouri not to indict police officer…
In the US, much of the population lives far removed from the rural areas where most food is produced. But…
Right now in America there are 13.5 million low-income people who live more than a mile from a supermarket, and…
Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority— yet as the US…
Despite strong public opinion supporting local food, organic agriculture and food workers’ rights, agribusiness continues to dominate food and farming policy.
To inoculate ourselves against the dangers of being co-opted into the very food system we have spent a decade criticizing, we need food politics.
There is a story behind our food. And we believe it ought makes us proud. Sadly, most of the food we eat has a story behind it that we would be ashamed to tell…
Around the US, community organizations are using local policy to develop a better food system...
In Race/Ethnicity, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2012) The global food crisis has pushed the U.S. food movement to a political…
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