Cultivating Justice:}bThe Effects of a Performance-based Food Education with the Agriculture, Community, and Theater (ACT) Project
Author: Lily Mathews
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 190
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Author: Lily Mathews
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alison Hope Alkon
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011-10-21
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0262516322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in “food deserts” where fast food is more common than fresh food. Cultivating Food Justice describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system. Bringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies, Cultivating Food Justice highlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. The studies offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultural and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement. These diverse accounts of the relationships among food, environmentalism, justice, race, and identity will help guide efforts to achieve a just and sustainable agriculture.
Author: Ian Werkheiser
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 3319571745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers fresh perspectives on issues of food justice. The chapters emerged from a series of annual workshops on food justice held at Michigan State University between 2013 and 2015, which brought together a wide variety of interested people to learn from and work with each other. Food justice can be studied from such diverse perspectives as philosophy, anthropology, economics, gender and sexuality studies, geography, history, literary criticism, philosophy and sociology as well as the human dimensions of agricultural and environmental sciences. As such, interdisciplinary workshops are a much-needed vehicle to improve our understanding of the subject, which is at the center of a vibrant and growing discourse not only among academics from a wide range of disciplines but also among policy makers and community activists. The book includes their perspectives, offering a wide range of approaches to and conceptions of food justice in a variety of contexts. This invaluable work requires readers to cross boundaries and be open to new ideas based on different assumptions.
Author: Marianne LeGreco
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0520314247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolina—a midsize city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top of the Food Research and Action Center's list of major cities experiencing food hardship. Greensboro's local food communities chose to confront these high rates of food insecurity by engaging neighborhood voices, mobilizing creative resources at the community level, and sustaining conversations across the local food system. Within three years of reaching the peak of FRAC's list, Greensboro saw an 8 percent drop in its food hardship rate and moved from first to fourteenth in FRAC's list. Using eight case studies of food justice activism, from urban farms to mobile farmers markets, shared kitchens to food policy councils, Everybody Eats highlights the importance of communication—and communicating social justice specifically—in building the kinds of infrastructure needed to create secure and just food systems.
Author: Robert Gottlieb
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013-01-25
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 026251866X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of American fast-food franchises has been a major contributor to an epidemic of “globesity.” To combat these inequities and excesses, a movement for food justice has emerged in recent years seeking to transform the food system from seed to table. In Food Justice, Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi tell the story of this emerging movement. A food justice framework ensures that the benefits and risks of how food is grown and processed, transported, distributed, and consumed are shared equitably. Gottlieb and Joshi recount the history of food injustices and describe current efforts to change the system, including community gardens and farmer training in Holyoke, Massachusetts, youth empowerment through the Rethinkers in New Orleans, farm-to-school programs across the country, and the Los Angeles school system's elimination of sugary soft drinks from its cafeterias. And they tell how food activism has succeeded at the highest level: advocates waged a grassroots campaign that convinced the Obama White House to plant a vegetable garden. The first comprehensive inquiry into this emerging movement, Food Justice addresses the increasing disconnect between food and culture that has resulted from our highly industrialized food system.
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture shares, and food-focused books, documentaries, and television shows have experienced an obvious boom in presence and popularity in recent American history. Food system issues of nutrition, pesticides, additives, food safety, obesity, labor, and environment, among many others, are increasingly the focus of food-oriented initiatives and community programs. Whether this increased focus on local, organic, and alternative food constitutes an activist movement or not is still up for debate (see Starr, 2006); nonetheless, it is hard to deny that interest in alternative food sources and systems is on the rise. However, some activists are now acknowledging that many of the proposed solutions to these issues are overlooking the multitude of justice issues embedded in the global food system. ..." -- from Introduction.
Author: Anthony J. Nocella II
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1137508221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth. This book is for anyone who wants to truly understand the school to prison pipeline as well as those interested in peace, social justice, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.
Author: Garrett Broad
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0520287452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Raising concerns about health, the environment, and economic inequality, critics of the industrial food system insist that we are in crisis. In response, food justice activists based in marginalized, low-income communities of color across the United States have developed community-based solutions to the nation's food system problems, arguing that activities like urban agriculture, cultural nutrition education, and food-related social enterprises can be an integral part of systemic social change. Highlighting the work of Community Services Unlimited, a South Los Angeles food justice group founded by the Black Panther Party, More Than Just Food explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the 'nonprofit industrial complex'"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Heather Hyden
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura M. Hughes
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 198
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