Planting Justice Blog

Feeding Our Roots, A Food Sovereignty Reflection By Marcelo Garzo At Planting Justice, we work to grow food, grow jobs and grow community.  What we are also doing is growing culture.  We are sowing...

What We Need is Our 40 Acres and a Mule By Brent Walker with Max Cadji Brent Walker, 31, who grew up on his grandmother’s farm, is asking everyone in the East Bay with large back yards or vacant...

Healing the Rift Between Science and Food: The Role of Intellectuals in Promoting a Just and Sustainable Food System  By Joshua Sbicca Since the end of World War II agrifood corporations who both...

Concerning the Unbearable Whiteness of Urban Farming By Antonio Roman-Alcala First off, let me start by stating who I am. I am a native of San Francisco, born to two U.S. citizens. My ethnic...

Beyond Obesity: Reframing Food Justice with Body Love By TC Duong Oakland has been at the forefront of what many would call the food justice movement – a movement to ensure that disenfranchised...

Eco-queer movement(s): Challenging heteronormative space through (re)imagining nature and food Joshua Sbicca European Journal of Ecopsychology 3: 33–52 (2012) Abstract In an era of ecological...

Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture By Roots of Change We, the undersigned, believe that a healthy food system is necessary to meet the urgent challenges of our time. Behind us stands a...

The Need for Racial Equality within the U.S. Food System By Haleh Zandi January 2009             According to the 1997 Census of Agriculture, there are 18,000 African American farmers in the United...

Small Farms as a Planetary Ecological Asset: Five Key Reasons Why We Should Support the Revitalization of Small Farms in the Global South By Miguel A. Altieri, President, Sociedad Científica...

The Modern/Colonial Food System in a Paradigm of War Co-authored by Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo and Haleh Zandi “The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their...