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Food Justice & Emergency Food Providers
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FEAST Leadership Network Webinar with Closing the Hunger Gap
July 15, 2015
• Introduction & Hellos
• What is Food Justice?
• Food Justice in Action with Sisters of the Road
• Food Justice in Action with Child Development Support Corporation
• Thank You
Agenda
Our Speakers
Jess Powers: Writer for WhyHunger
Shannon Cogan: Jesuit Service Volunteer for Sisters of the Road
Mireille Massac: Community Relations Manager for Child Development Support Corporation
UNDERSTANDING FOOD JUSTICE
FOOD SECURITY
The ability of all people to access enough food at all times.
COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY
A condition in which all community residents obtain a safe,
culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a
sustainable food system that maximizes community self-
reliance, social justice, and democratic decision-making.
--Hamm and Bellows, 2002
FOOD JUSTICE
Food justice work requires us to question why food insecurity
currently exists. We must examine the historical, social, and
economic inequalities that cause wide spread food insecurity,
locally and globally.
Source: Earthworks Urban Farm, http://www.cskdetroit.org/EWG/markets_programs/food_justice
THE RIGHT TO FOOD
• the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for
himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing
and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living
conditions
• the fundamental right to freedom from hunger and
malnutrition
Source: International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Article 11
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Source: "FDR Memorial wall". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FDR_Memorial_wall.jpg#/media/File:FDR_Memorial_wall.jpg
WHAT DOES THE RIGHT TO FOOD PROTECT?
• Adequate
• Accessible (economic and physical)
• Available
• Sustainable
THE RISE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND
THE RIGHT TO FOOD
Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to
healthy and culturally appropriate food
produced through sustainable methods and
their right to define their own food and
agriculture systems….
– Via Campesina International Peasant Movement
THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE
Our community members don’t see our work as "health equity"
and "food justice" and "educational equity" and "black male
achievement." That’s all language from a dominant
perspective. For our parents, it’s, "Can you help my son go to
school?" And, "Can you help my family eat a decent dinner?"
For them, our work connects to their lived experience. And for
us, that’s what it’s about, too. It’s about improving people’s
lives at the core. And helping them build tools so that they
don’t need us anymore. "We can help teach you how to build
your garden, so that you don’t need to ask me to help you build
a garden again. Once you learn how to do it yourself, ...Guess
what?... I can go help somebody else. You’re good. And then
you can go help your neighbor."
--D’Artagnan Scorza as quoted in Chant Down Babylon: Building
Relationship, Leadership, and Power in the Food Justice Movement
(Food Justice Voices series)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• A History of Emergency Food in the US Timeline
http://bit.ly/1UsmYMg
• Nourishing Change: Fulfilling the Right to Food in the US
http://chrgj.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/05/130527_Nourishing-Change.pdf
• Right to Food and Nutrition Watch
http://www.fian.org/library/right-to-food-and-nutrition-watch/
• Food Justice Voices
http://www.whyhunger.org/getinfo/showArticle/articleId/4111
Child Development Support Corporation
Connect With Us on Social Media! http://www.facebook.com/oregonfoodbankcfs
https://twitter.com/#!/OFB_SharonT
Jessica [email protected]
Shannon [email protected]
Thank You!
Mirelle [email protected]
Emily [email protected]
Tracy [email protected]
