Food Justice -

This annotated bibliography provides current research and outreach on structural racism in the U.S. food system for the food system practitioner, researcher, and educator. Structural racism in the United States has been defined as the “normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal—that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic outcomes for people of color.”

The Collaborative Campaigning for Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice as part of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (cban) is an organization that strives to promote food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues in order to protect the integrity of the environment, health, food, and the livelihoods of people in Canada and around the world by facilitating, informing and organizing civil society action, researching, and providing information to government for policy development.

No One Is Illegal (NOII) is a loosely connected international network of antiracist groups and religious asylum initiatives that represents non-resident immigrants who stay illegally and are at risk of deportation. The network has started a campaign and held rallies to bring wider attention to the situation of refugees. A NOII collective of organizations is established in a number of Canadian cities, including Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal, and London.

This collection features Yale faculty and distinguished speakers talking about food policy, agriculture and sustainability. Featured podcasts also come from the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

The paper lays out the principles that animate The Stop’s programs and that have supported its expansion. The authors propose a three-year plan moving toward replication, including a joint private-public funding strategy, a pilot phase,and the development of an umbrella organization to help resource and oversee the founding of a network of community food centres across Ontario.

Tips and strategies for staring a community garden.

Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer run political non-profit collective comprised of activists from diverse walks of life (including labour activists, educators, researchers, students and youth of colour) based in Toronto, Ontario, and now in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We are engaged in this work alongside our personal commitments and numerous social justice struggles.

Food insecurity in Canada is measured at the level of the household, but it is most profoundly experienced at the level of the individual. PROOF offers articles and research on the lived experience of food insecurity. More information on PROOF at: nutritionalsciences.lamp.utoronto.ca

Canada Without Poverty seeks to eradicate poverty in Canada for the benefit of all by educating Canadians about the human and financial cost of poverty, and by identifying public policy solutions.

The Food Action Research Centre or FoodARC is a research centre at Mount Saint Vincent University committed to research and action to build food security in Nova Scotia and beyond. FoodARC's projects and activities are grounded in four pillars: research, building capacity, sharing knowledge, and advocacy and policy change.