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2015 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Food Justice: Looking Back, Looking Forward – Tuesday, July 28th 2015
Articles:
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems – Special Issue: Agroecology and the Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Transdisciplinary and Participatory Perspectives; Volume 37, Issue 1, 2013. Numerous articles are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjsa21/37/1#.VafpnSzbLIU
Bracken A. Blood, sweat and sugar: trade deal fails Haitian workers on DR plantations. Aljazeera America. July 16th 2015. Available at: http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/7/blood-sweat-and-sugar-trade-deal-fails-haitian-workers-in-dr.html
Carney PA, Hamada JL, Rdesiski R, et al. Impact of a community gardening project on vegetable intake, food security, and family relationships: a community-based participatory research study. Journal of Community Health. 2012;37(4):874-81.
Cornell University – Civic Ecology Lab (publication list) – http://civicecology.org/publications
Crowder DW, Reganold JP. Financial competitiveness of organic agriculture on a global scale.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(24):7611-6.
Globalizations - Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice, and Social Movements; Volume 12, Issue 4, 2015. Numerous articles are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/12/4#.Vaf5wizbLIU
Elder SD, Dauvergne P. Farming for Walmart: the politics of corporate control and responsibility in the global South. The Journal of Peasant Studies. Published online June 29th 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2015.1043275
Hartl B. Settlement: EPA to Analyze Impacts of World's Two Most Widely Used Pesticides on 1,500 Endangered Species. Historic Settlement Means Harms of Atrazine, Roundup Will Be Assessed (press release). Tucson, AZ: Center for Biological Diversity. June 23rd 2015. Available at: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2015/pesticides-06-23-2015.html
Hartnett K. ‘Seed libraries’ try to save the world’s plants. How to revive crop diversity, one town at a time. Boston Globe. March 3rd 2014. Available at: https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/03/09/seed-libraries-try-save-world-plants/XnM6HJ8GCfPoo6JWtU6DQL/story.html#
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Heaney CD, Myers K, Wing S, et al. Source tracking swine fecal waste in surface water proximal to swine concentrated animal feeding operations. Science of the Total Environment. 2015; 511:676-683.
Holt-Giménez E, Wang Y. Reform or transformation? The pivotal role of food justice in the US food movement. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts. 2011;5(1):83-102.
Kearney GD, Rodriguez G, Quandt S, et al. Work safety climate, safety behaviors, and occupational injuries of youth farmworkers in North Carolina. American Journal of Public Health. 2015;105(7):1336-1343.
Kinkaid E. Organic trumps conventional across the board: highlights from The Rodale Institute’s 30-year report. Food Tank. April 26th 2015. Available at: http://foodtank.com/news/2015/04/organic-trumps-conventional-across-the-board
Krasny ME. Why Baltimore and Ferguson might embrace gardening and find healing. May 22nd 2015. The Guardian. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/why-baltimore-and-ferguson-might-embrace-gardening-and-find-healing?CMP=ema_565
Lopez-Wagner B. Buenos Dias, D.C. – it's time to deal with the effects of pesticides. June 23rd 2015. Earthjustice (blog). Available at: http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-june/buenos-dias-d-c-the-effects-of-pesticides
Nicole W. CAFOs and environmental justice: the case of North Carolina. Environmental Health Perspectives.2013;121:A182-189.Available at: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/121-a182/
Nink E. Accounting for the hidden costs of monoculture crops. Food Tank. June 4th 2015. Available at: http://foodtank.com/news/2015/06/accounting-for-the-hidden-costs-of-monoculture-crops
Nink E. Organic farming is financially-sustainable worldwide, study finds. Christian Science Monitor. June 10th 2015. Available at: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Bite/2015/0610/Organic-farming-is-financially-sustainable-worldwide-study-finds Plano CE, Darby KJ, Shaffer CL, et al. Considering public transit: new insights into job and healthy food access for low-income residents in Baltimore, Maryland. Environmental Justice. 2015;8(3):65-71. Ponisio LC, M’Gonigle LK, Mace KC, et al. Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap. Proc. R. Soc. B 2015; 282:20141396.
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Shamasunder B, Mason R, Ippoliti L, et al. Growing together: poverty alleviation, community building and environmental justice through home gardens in Pacoima, Los Angeles. Environmental Justice. 2015;8(3):72-77.
South EC, Kondo MC, Cheney RA, et al. Neighborhood blight, stress, and health: a walking trial of urban greening and ambulatory heart rate. American Journal of Public Health. 2015; 105(5): 909-913. Wight RA. The agroecological-educator: food-based community development. Community Development Journal. 2014;49(2):198-213.
Women for Women International. ‘The Woman is a Tractor’: Land rights in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. December 8th
2014. Available at:
http://www.womenforwomen.org.uk/blog/land-rights-research-launch
Books:
Alkon AH, Agyeman J. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press; 2011.
Andree P, Ayres, J, Bosia MJ, Massicottee M-J (editors). Globalization and Food Sovereignty:
Global and Local Change and the New Politics of Food. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto
Press; 2014.
Barlow M. Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever. New York: The
New Press; 2013.
Bowens N. The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming. British Columbia,
Canada: New Society Publishers; 2015.
Bullard R. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality, 3rd edition. Boulder,
Colorado: Westview Press; 2000.
Bullard R. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution.
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint; 2005.
Conner C. Seed Libraries – And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People.
British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers; 2015.
Echo-Hawk, WR. In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing;
2013.
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Gliessman SR. Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems, 3rd edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC
Press; 2014.
Gottlieb R, Joshi A. Food Justice (paperback edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2013.
Helphand KI. Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University
Press; 2008. More information is available at: http://tupress.org/books/defiant-gardens
Holt-Giménez E. Campesino A Campesino. Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer
Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Oakland, CA: Food First Books; 2006.
Holt-Giménez E. Food Movements Unite! Oakland, CA: Food First Books; 2011.
Krasny ME, Tidball KG. Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up.
Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2015.
Perfecto I, Vandemeer J, Wright A. Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation, and
Food Sovereignty. London, United Kingdom: Routledge; 2009.
Snapp S, Pound B (editors). Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovations for Development. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier; 2008.
Tidball KG, ME Krasny (editors). Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Community
Greening. The Netherlands: Springer Publishing; 2014. More information is available at:
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789048199464
Wurster CF. DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press; 2015.
Conferences:
Closing the Hunger Gap: Cultivating Food Justice Conference, September 13-16th 2015,
Portland, Oregon
http://thehungergap.org/
FAO - International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition (see below
URL for multiple meetings scheduled in 2015)
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/afns/en/
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Growing Food and Justice for All, September 25-27th 2015, Chicago, Illinois
http://growingfoodandjusticeforall2015.sched.org/
Just Food – Princeton Theological Seminary, September 24-26 2015, Princeton, New Jersey
http://coned.ptsem.edu/events/just-food/
Just Food Conference – Teachers College at Columbia University in Partnership with the
Laurie M. Tisch, Center for Food, Education and Policy – March 15th 2015, New York City
[Speaker presentations (videos) from the Just Food Conference at Columbia University are
available for viewing at]: https://vimeo.com/justfood/videos/appears/sort:date
Third Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium – Yale University, October 30-31st 2015, New
Haven, Connecticut. More information is available at:
http://yalefoodsymposium.org/
Documentaries/Films:
Food Chains
http://www.foodchainsfilm.com
Food for Thought, Food for Life
http://foodforthoughtfilm.com/
Growing Cities
http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com
Hungry for Justice – A Spotlight on the South
http://greenrabbits.org/blog/new-documentary-launched-march-24th-2014-hungry-justice-
%E2%80%93-spotlight-south
‘If You Don’t Have Land You are Nothing’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8VolDeo8mk&list=PLJGcVkckv-
w5755Pcln2hx2060oPG8kUn&index=1
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Seeds of Resilience – Bolivia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-pqbt41t4
The Future Farm - The 9 X 9 Film Festival, July 12-20th 2015
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/15/future-farm
The Hand that Feeds Us
http://thehandthatfeedsfilm.com
The Harvest (La Cosecha) – The Story of the Children Who Feed America
http://theharvestfilm.com/videos
Reports & Other Documents:
Chen W, Clayton ML, Palmer A. Community Food Security in the United States: A Survey of
Scientific Literature, Volume 2. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future;
2015. Available at: http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-
center-for-a-livable-future/research/clf_publications/pub_rep_desc/CLF-Surveys-Community-
Food-Security-Updated-Report.html
Echo Hawk Consulting. Feeding Ourselves: food access, health disparities, and the pathways to healthy Native American communities. Longmont, CO: Echo Hawk Consulting; 2015. Available at: https://nebula.wsimg.com/891e74d1afe847b92abe87b2a1df7c63?AccessKeyId=2EF8ECC329760AC5A98D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis, On Care for Our Common Home. Rome, Italy: the Vatican; June 18th 2015. Available at: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Final Report for the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition September 18-19th 2014. Rome, Italy: FAO; 2015. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4327e.pdf
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Harden S. Surface-Water Quality in Agricultural Watersheds of the North Carolina Coastal Plain Associated with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Scientific Investigations Report 2015–5080. U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in preparation with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources; 2015. Available at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2015/5080/pdf/sir2015-5080.pdf Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Reporting from Brazil: Lessons on Agroecology
http://www.iatp.org/blog/201506/reporting-from-brazil-lessons-on-agroecology
Inwald EA. Walmart at the Crossroads: The Environmental and Labor Impact of Its Food Supply Chain. Los Angeles, CA: Food Chains Workers Alliance; June 2015. Available at: http://foodchainworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Walmart-at-the-Crossroads-FINAL-06.04.15.pdf
Scientists’ Open Letter to FAO Director General Graziano da Silva, in Support of the February
2015 Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology. June 24th 2015. Available at:
http://www.iatp.org/documents/scientists%E2%80%99-open-letter-to-fao-director-general-
graziano-da-silva-in-support-of-the-februa
System of Crop Intensification: Agro-ecological Innovations to Improve Agriculture
Production, Food Security and Resilience to Climate Change. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University;
2014. Available at:
http://sri.ciifad.cornell.edu/aboutsri/othercrops/SCImonograph_SRIRice2014.pdf
Why Hunger Year. Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty into Action (undated). Available at:
http://whyhunger.org//getInfo/showArticle?articleId=4137
Wing S, Johnson J. Industrial Hog Operations in North Carolina Disproportionately Impact African-Americans, Hispanics and American Indians. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Epidemiology; 2014. Available at: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/UNC-Report.pdf
Women for Women International - United Kingdom (UK). “Women inherit wrappers, men
inherit fields”: The problem of women’s access to land in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of
Congo (Research Report). London, UK: Women for Women International; December 2014.
Available at:
http://www.womenforwomen.org.uk/sites/default/files/WfWI_DRC_Research_Report.pdf
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Websites:
Agricultural Justice Project
http://agriculturaljusticeproject.org/?page_id=13
American Community Gardening Association
https://communitygarden.org
American Farmland Trust
https://www.farmland.org/
Berkeley Food Institute
http://food.berkeley.edu/
Beyond the Peel
http://www.beyondthepeel.com/
Bread for the World
http://www.bread.org
Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment – Sustainable Agriculture
http://www.crpe-ej.org/crpe/index.php/campaigns/sustainable-agriculture
Civic Ecology Lab - Cornell University
http://civicecology.org/
Community Agroecology Network
http://www.canunite.org/
Corporate Accountability International
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/
Earthjustice
http://earthjustice.org/tags/gmo
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Environmental Protection Agency – Environmental Justice
http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice
ETC Group
http://www.etcgroup.org
Equal Exchange
http://equalexchange.coop
Equitable Food Initiative
http://www.equitablefood.org/#!
Fair Food Network
http://www.fairfoodnetwork.org/list/farm-and-food-jobs
FARM AID
https://www.farmaid.org
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
http://farmandranchfreedom.org
Farmworker Justice https://www.farmworkerjustice.org
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
http://www.fao.org/themes/en
Food and Water Watch – Right to Water
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/world-water/right
Food Democracy Now
http://www.fooddemocracynow.org
Food Chains Workers Alliance
http://foodchainworkers.org
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Food First – Institute for Food and Development Policy
http://foodfirst.org/
Food 4 Farmers
http://food4farmers.org
Food Tank
http://foodtank.com
Gaia Foundation
http://www.gaiafoundation.org
GRAIN
https://www.grain.org
Grassroots International
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/
Groundswell International
http://www.groundswellinternational.org/
Growing Power
http://www.growingpower.org/
Healthy Food Access Portal
http://www.healthyfoodaccess.org/
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.iatp.org/
Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK)
http://icik.psu.edu/
Jane Goodall Institute
http://www.janegoodall.org/
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Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots
http://www.rootsandshoots.org/
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/
Just Food
http://justfood.org
Kitchen Gardeners International
http://kgi.org
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer?navid=KNOWYOURFARMER
LAND MATRIX
http://www.landmatrix.org/en
La Via Campesina
http://viacampesina.org/en
National Family Farm Coalition
http://nffc.net/
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
http://sustainableagriculture.net
Never Ending Food
http://www.neverendingfood.org
Oakland Food Policy Council – (‘Right to Grow’ Campaign Victory, Food Justice Curriculum, Equity
Checklist, Food Hustle Guide)
http://oaklandfood.org
Occidental College – Food Justice
http://www.oxy.edu/life-oxy/sustainability/food-justice
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Organic Seed Alliance
http://www.seedalliance.org
Oxfam International – GROW Campaign
https://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/about-grow
Real Food Challenge
http://www.realfoodchallenge.org
Rodale Institute
http://rodaleinstitute.org
Roots of Change
http://www.rootsofchange.org
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) USA
http://rafiusa.org
Seed Savers Exchange
http://www.seedsavers.org
Small Planet Institute
http://smallplanet.org/about
The Center for Public Integrity – Environmental Justice, Denied
http://www.publicintegrity.org/environment/environmental-justice-denied
The Green Belt Movement
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai
The Land Institute
https://landinstitute.org/
Trees for Life International
https://www.treesforlife.org/our-work/our-initiatives/moringa/nutritional-information
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University of California, Santa Cruz – Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
http://casfs.ucsc.edu
University of Vermont – Agroecological Rural Livelihoods Group
http://www.uvm.edu/~agroecol
Urban Land Institute
http://uli.org
USDA - Farm to School Resources
http://www.fns.usda.gov/farmtoschool/farm-school-resources
USDA’s National Farmers’ Market Directory
http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) & Oregon Tilth – 2015 Webinar Series
http://tilth.org/webinars
U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance
http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org
Waterkeeper Alliance
http://waterkeeper.org
Why Hunger Year
http://www.whyhunger.org
Women for Women International
http://www.womenforwomen.org.uk