Food Justice
Overview
Robert Gottlieb and Anapuma Joshi, authors of Food Justice: A Book About an Emerging Movement, note that “food justice seeks to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what and how food is grown, produced, transported, distributed, accessed and eaten are shared fairly. They describe the food justice movement as an effort to transform the current food system, including but not limited to eliminating disparities and inequities.” Like most of the issues covered in this website, the causes of food injustice are complex, providing many entry points for change. For example, there are groups working on reducing the number of “food deserts,” that is, neighborhoods with little or no easy access to healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables, as part of efforts to reduce or prevent racial disparities in health outcomes, such as childhood obesity. There are other groups working on farmworker rights and working conditions, as part of increasing racial equity in the production of food.
Key sites
- Racial Justice in the Food System
- Healthy Food Access Portal
- Planting Justice - Grow Food, Grow Jobs, Grow Community
- Our Kitchen Table
- Soul Fire Farm
Research
- Food Justice
- Bowman v. Monsanto: The monopoly over the global food system
- Building the Case for Racial Equity in the Food System, Center for Social Inclusion
- Dismantling Racism in the Food System
Practices
- Food Justice is Racial Justice
- The Racism in Healthy Food
- The Color of Food
- Detroit Food Justice Task Force
- Healthy Food Access Portal
- The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the United States Food System
- The Racist Sandwich podcast
- Food System Racial Equity Assessment Tool: A Facilitation Guide
- Racial Equity Tools for Food Systems Planning
- Racial Equity Implementation Guide for Food Hubs: A Framework for Translating Values Into Organizational Action
- Voices from the Field: COVID Crisis Reinforces the Hunger Industrial Complex
