2013 Fall Re-visioning Food Sovereignty: U.S. Supply and Consumption
Dana Bah’lgai Eldridge
Dana Bah’lgai Eldridge is a policy analyst at Din脙漏 Policy Institute, located at Din脙漏 College in Tsaile, Arizona. Since 2011, Dana has researched the Din脙漏 Food System to understand how […]
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John Vandermeer
The dual problems of biodiversity loss and world hunger have traditionally been envisioned as belonging to separate and largely independent domains. 聽 Recent years, spurred by the actions of grassroots […]
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“The Price of Sugar”
In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, […]
Read More“Fair Tomatoes: A Story about Justice, Dignity, and Sustainability”
Immokalee is the tomato capital of America. If you’ve bitten into a tomato during the winter season, it was picked from Immokalee. This small Florida town is also home to […]
Read MoreJulie Guthman
Many activists today want to grow their own food or teach others to grow their own food as a way to achieve social justice in the food system. While “getting […]
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Peter Howard
In the midst of a series of projects called The Hunger Cycle, founding Cornerstone artist Peter Howard shares the company’s history and unique process as well as his experience exploring […]
Read MoreA. Breeze Harper, PhD
How do the meanings PETA applies to vegan commodities, and their ‘anti-racist’ use of Trayvon Martin’s 2012 murder, signify how both post-humanism and post-racialism work to conceal the violence of […]
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Raj Patel
Humanity produces enough food to feed everyone in the world today, and yet the world is disfigured by inequality. There are today one and a half billion people overweight, and […]
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Robert Gottlieb
Food Justice can be considered: a) organizing to bring about food system change; b) a focus on equity and disparities; c) an entry point for a broader social justice agenda; […]
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