Week 6 (10/5) – Food apartheid and food justice (CD)

How do racism and other structural inequities shape our food system? In a rich country, why do so many people go hungry? What should we do about it? 

Watch:

Soul Fire Farm (2016). Soul Fire Farm: Feeding the Soul, Growing Community. 

Read:

Hunger Report 2023: Insights on food insecurity and inequity in the Greater Washington region. (2023). Capital Area Food Bank.

Sánchez, V. (2022, July 7). Black-owned stores work to end D.C.’s food deserts. The Washington Post. (pdf printout)

Massey, B. (2017, February 27). D.C.’s urban farms wrestle with gentrification and displacement. Civil Eats.

Submit by 11am:

1) Response blog CD-2: Food insecurity is both a reflection of other structural inequalities and a driver that helps perpetuate them. What approaches to decreasing food insecurity and making our food system more just do you find most compelling? (250 words)

2) Neighborhood case study progress report (RS&I)

In class: