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.
Land grabs—large-scale acquisitions of agricultural, range and forest lands by outside interests—are happening around the world. They are also taking place in US cities.
The fight for good, fresh, affordable food is a social and economic continuation of the struggle to end discrimination.
The central aim of most Food Policy Councils is to identify and propose innovative solutions to improve local or state food systems.
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.
While food policy planning is still in its infancy, Food Policy Councils provide a hopeful model for creating a more sustainable, democratic food system.
Few studies to date have used a “food system” framework to approach food security, food retail, or other community food issues.
How will Oakland’s long-underserved neighborhoods be affected by the arrival of those two very different food retail formats?
Food banks are seeing more demand while donations have dropped precipitously.
Over the last five years, groups spanning the ideological spectrum have come out in opposition to US and EU farm subsidies.
In 1998, Central Pennsylvania looked like an attractive target for agribusiness.
A diverse network of activists across America have begun organizing for a just food system that benefits consumers and farmers.
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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