In this video, professor Alfonso Morales interviews author Ken Meter about community food webs, the subject of his 2021 book. The talk is more than a description of what's in…

This webpage is the home for HEAL Food Alliance Webinars and Trainings, which focus on food justice projects and regional food economies, including a focus on racial justice, labor rights,…

Black farmers once made up 14 percent of America's farmers. Today, black farmers account for less than 2 percent. One of them, fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus 'June' Provost Jr.,…

Released in 2020, the National Young Farmers Coalition toolkit aims to be a starting point, to "orient and incite members towards preliminary consciousness-raising and direct action." Oriented towards farmers, the…

The local food movement in the United States has evolved over the past 25 years, including a more recent convergence with movements supporting food access and health, food justice, environment,…

"The main question of this senior thesis is that of the relationship formed between the Poughkeepsie Farm Project and the residents of the City of Poughkeepsie through the space farmers…

Dr. Regina Bernard-Carreno was born and raised in Hells Kitchen, NYC. She is a graduating pioneer of the African American Studies Master's Degree Program at Columbia University. She completed her…

Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending…

The COVID-19 crisis is exposing an enduring and extremely dangerous problem – the inequities within our food system. In honor of a global response, A Growing Culture (AGC) is announcing…

This brief guide from the Local Food Research Center of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project walks through strategies to ensure markets effectively serve low-income customers, including through marketing, product offerings,…