Research Guides: Environmental Justice: Food &amp; agriculture

Food & Agriculture

"Food justice refers to the efforts to understand and combat the intersections between inequalities of race, class, gender, and national status, and the production, distribution, and consumption of food" (Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues, 2015)

Suggested search terms

Food justice
Food sovereignty.
Nutrition policy > United States. AND Social justice > United States.
Food supply > Moral and ethical aspects.
Food supply > Law and legislation
Food supply > Government policy
Hunger
Famines.
Starvation.
Malnutrition.
Food relief
Farm labor
Pesticides
Also, search for specific crops, places, or nutrition-related health issues.
Food industry and trade > Moral and ethical aspects.
Food industry and trade > United States > Moral and ethical aspects.
Food industry and trade > Environmental aspects.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects > United States.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture > United States.
Sustainability > Social aspects.
Obesity > Social aspects.
Food > Marketing.
Minorities > Nutrition > United States.
Poor > Nutrition > United States.
African American > Nutrition.
Food security.
Right to food.
Right to food > Developing countries.

Selected books

Addressing Environmental and Food Justice: Toward Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Call Number: on order; use ILL in the meantime
Essays on the intersections between the school to prison pipeline, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.
Black Food Matters by Hanna Garth (Editor); Ashanté M. Reese (Editor)
An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today For Black Americans, the food system is broken. When it comes to nutrition, Black consumers experience an unjust and inequitable distribution of resources. Black Food Matters examines these issues through in-depth essays that analyze how Blackness is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes our sustenance "healthy," and Black individuals' own beliefs about what their cuisine should be. Primarily written by nonwhite scholars, and framed through a focus on Black agency instead of deprivation, the essays here showcase Black communities fighting for the survival of their food culture.
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Analyzes and challenges the ways in which “metabolic syndrome” has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people.
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability
Call Number: e-book
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Environmental Justice and Farm Labor
Addresses key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States, including justice-related issues facing farmers and laborers on farms; how history and policy have impacted them; and the opportunities and leverage points for change in improving justice outcomes.
Farming While Black
Call Number: print
Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture."
Food Justice
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.
Food Justice Now!
Call Number: e-book
A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates and the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system.
More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change
Call Number: e-book
Explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex.
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Call Number: e-book
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.
Freedom Farmers by Monica M. White; LaDonna Redmond (Foreword by)
Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.