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2015 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

Food Justice: Looking Back, Looking Forward – Tuesday, July 28th 2015

Articles:

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems – Special Issue: Agroecology and the Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Transdisciplinary and Participatory Perspectives; Volume 37, Issue 1, 2013. Numerous articles are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjsa21/37/1#.VafpnSzbLIU

Bracken A. Blood, sweat and sugar: trade deal fails Haitian workers on DR plantations. Aljazeera America. July 16th 2015. Available at: http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/7/blood-sweat-and-sugar-trade-deal-fails-haitian-workers-in-dr.html

Carney PA, Hamada JL, Rdesiski R, et al. Impact of a community gardening project on vegetable intake, food security, and family relationships: a community-based participatory research study. Journal of Community Health. 2012;37(4):874-81.

Cornell University – Civic Ecology Lab (publication list) – http://civicecology.org/publications

Crowder DW, Reganold JP. Financial competitiveness of organic agriculture on a global scale.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(24):7611-6.

Globalizations - Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice, and Social Movements; Volume 12, Issue 4, 2015. Numerous articles are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/12/4#.Vaf5wizbLIU

Elder SD, Dauvergne P. Farming for Walmart: the politics of corporate control and responsibility in the global South. The Journal of Peasant Studies. Published online June 29th 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2015.1043275

Hartl B. Settlement: EPA to Analyze Impacts of World's Two Most Widely Used Pesticides on 1,500 Endangered Species. Historic Settlement Means Harms of Atrazine, Roundup Will Be Assessed (press release). Tucson, AZ: Center for Biological Diversity. June 23rd 2015. Available at: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2015/pesticides-06-23-2015.html

Hartnett K. ‘Seed libraries’ try to save the world’s plants. How to revive crop diversity, one town at a time. Boston Globe. March 3rd 2014. Available at: https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/03/09/seed-libraries-try-save-world-plants/XnM6HJ8GCfPoo6JWtU6DQL/story.html#

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Heaney CD, Myers K, Wing S, et al. Source tracking swine fecal waste in surface water proximal to swine concentrated animal feeding operations. Science of the Total Environment. 2015; 511:676-683.

Holt-Giménez E, Wang Y. Reform or transformation? The pivotal role of food justice in the US food movement. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts. 2011;5(1):83-102.

Kearney GD, Rodriguez G, Quandt S, et al. Work safety climate, safety behaviors, and occupational injuries of youth farmworkers in North Carolina. American Journal of Public Health. 2015;105(7):1336-1343.

Kinkaid E. Organic trumps conventional across the board: highlights from The Rodale Institute’s 30-year report. Food Tank. April 26th 2015. Available at: http://foodtank.com/news/2015/04/organic-trumps-conventional-across-the-board

Krasny ME. Why Baltimore and Ferguson might embrace gardening and find healing. May 22nd 2015. The Guardian. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/why-baltimore-and-ferguson-might-embrace-gardening-and-find-healing?CMP=ema_565

Lopez-Wagner B. Buenos Dias, D.C. – it's time to deal with the effects of pesticides. June 23rd 2015. Earthjustice (blog). Available at: http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-june/buenos-dias-d-c-the-effects-of-pesticides

Nicole W. CAFOs and environmental justice: the case of North Carolina. Environmental Health Perspectives.2013;121:A182-189.Available at: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/121-a182/

Nink E. Accounting for the hidden costs of monoculture crops. Food Tank. June 4th 2015. Available at: http://foodtank.com/news/2015/06/accounting-for-the-hidden-costs-of-monoculture-crops

Nink E. Organic farming is financially-sustainable worldwide, study finds. Christian Science Monitor. June 10th 2015. Available at: http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Bite/2015/0610/Organic-farming-is-financially-sustainable-worldwide-study-finds Plano CE, Darby KJ, Shaffer CL, et al. Considering public transit: new insights into job and healthy food access for low-income residents in Baltimore, Maryland. Environmental Justice. 2015;8(3):65-71. Ponisio LC, M’Gonigle LK, Mace KC, et al. Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap. Proc. R. Soc. B 2015; 282:20141396.

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Shamasunder B, Mason R, Ippoliti L, et al. Growing together: poverty alleviation, community building and environmental justice through home gardens in Pacoima, Los Angeles. Environmental Justice. 2015;8(3):72-77.

South EC, Kondo MC, Cheney RA, et al. Neighborhood blight, stress, and health: a walking trial of urban greening and ambulatory heart rate. American Journal of Public Health. 2015; 105(5): 909-913. Wight RA. The agroecological-educator: food-based community development. Community Development Journal. 2014;49(2):198-213.

Women for Women International. ‘The Woman is a Tractor’: Land rights in the Democratic

Republic of Congo. December 8th

2014. Available at:

http://www.womenforwomen.org.uk/blog/land-rights-research-launch

Books:

Alkon AH, Agyeman J. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability. Cambridge, MA:

MIT Press; 2011.

Andree P, Ayres, J, Bosia MJ, Massicottee M-J (editors). Globalization and Food Sovereignty:

Global and Local Change and the New Politics of Food. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto

Press; 2014.

Barlow M. Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever. New York: The

New Press; 2013.

Bowens N. The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming. British Columbia,

Canada: New Society Publishers; 2015.

Bullard R. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality, 3rd edition. Boulder,

Colorado: Westview Press; 2000.

Bullard R. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint; 2005.

Conner C. Seed Libraries – And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People.

British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers; 2015.

Echo-Hawk, WR. In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing;

2013.

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Gliessman SR. Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems, 3rd edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC

Press; 2014.

Gottlieb R, Joshi A. Food Justice (paperback edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2013.

Helphand KI. Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University

Press; 2008. More information is available at: http://tupress.org/books/defiant-gardens

Holt-Giménez E. Campesino A Campesino. Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer

Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Oakland, CA: Food First Books; 2006.

Holt-Giménez E. Food Movements Unite! Oakland, CA: Food First Books; 2011.

Krasny ME, Tidball KG. Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up.

Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2015.

Perfecto I, Vandemeer J, Wright A. Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation, and

Food Sovereignty. London, United Kingdom: Routledge; 2009.

Snapp S, Pound B (editors). Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovations for Development. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier; 2008.

Tidball KG, ME Krasny (editors). Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Community

Greening. The Netherlands: Springer Publishing; 2014. More information is available at:

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789048199464

Wurster CF. DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press; 2015.

Conferences:

Closing the Hunger Gap: Cultivating Food Justice Conference, September 13-16th 2015,

Portland, Oregon

http://thehungergap.org/

FAO - International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition (see below

URL for multiple meetings scheduled in 2015)

http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/afns/en/

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Growing Food and Justice for All, September 25-27th 2015, Chicago, Illinois

http://growingfoodandjusticeforall2015.sched.org/

Just Food – Princeton Theological Seminary, September 24-26 2015, Princeton, New Jersey

http://coned.ptsem.edu/events/just-food/

Just Food Conference – Teachers College at Columbia University in Partnership with the

Laurie M. Tisch, Center for Food, Education and Policy – March 15th 2015, New York City

[Speaker presentations (videos) from the Just Food Conference at Columbia University are

available for viewing at]: https://vimeo.com/justfood/videos/appears/sort:date

Third Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium – Yale University, October 30-31st 2015, New

Haven, Connecticut. More information is available at:

http://yalefoodsymposium.org/

Documentaries/Films:

Food Chains

http://www.foodchainsfilm.com

Food for Thought, Food for Life

http://foodforthoughtfilm.com/

Growing Cities

http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com

Hungry for Justice – A Spotlight on the South

http://greenrabbits.org/blog/new-documentary-launched-march-24th-2014-hungry-justice-

%E2%80%93-spotlight-south

‘If You Don’t Have Land You are Nothing’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8VolDeo8mk&list=PLJGcVkckv-

w5755Pcln2hx2060oPG8kUn&index=1

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Seeds of Resilience – Bolivia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-pqbt41t4

The Future Farm - The 9 X 9 Film Festival, July 12-20th 2015

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/15/future-farm

The Hand that Feeds Us

http://thehandthatfeedsfilm.com

The Harvest (La Cosecha) – The Story of the Children Who Feed America

http://theharvestfilm.com/videos

Reports & Other Documents:

Chen W, Clayton ML, Palmer A. Community Food Security in the United States: A Survey of

Scientific Literature, Volume 2. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future;

2015. Available at: http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-

center-for-a-livable-future/research/clf_publications/pub_rep_desc/CLF-Surveys-Community-

Food-Security-Updated-Report.html

Echo Hawk Consulting. Feeding Ourselves: food access, health disparities, and the pathways to healthy Native American communities. Longmont, CO: Echo Hawk Consulting; 2015. Available at: https://nebula.wsimg.com/891e74d1afe847b92abe87b2a1df7c63?AccessKeyId=2EF8ECC329760AC5A98D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis, On Care for Our Common Home. Rome, Italy: the Vatican; June 18th 2015. Available at: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Final Report for the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition September 18-19th 2014. Rome, Italy: FAO; 2015. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4327e.pdf

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Harden S. Surface-Water Quality in Agricultural Watersheds of the North Carolina Coastal Plain Associated with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Scientific Investigations Report 2015–5080. U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in preparation with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources; 2015. Available at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2015/5080/pdf/sir2015-5080.pdf Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Reporting from Brazil: Lessons on Agroecology

http://www.iatp.org/blog/201506/reporting-from-brazil-lessons-on-agroecology

Inwald EA. Walmart at the Crossroads: The Environmental and Labor Impact of Its Food Supply Chain. Los Angeles, CA: Food Chains Workers Alliance; June 2015. Available at: http://foodchainworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Walmart-at-the-Crossroads-FINAL-06.04.15.pdf

Scientists’ Open Letter to FAO Director General Graziano da Silva, in Support of the February

2015 Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology. June 24th 2015. Available at:

http://www.iatp.org/documents/scientists%E2%80%99-open-letter-to-fao-director-general-

graziano-da-silva-in-support-of-the-februa

System of Crop Intensification: Agro-ecological Innovations to Improve Agriculture

Production, Food Security and Resilience to Climate Change. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University;

2014. Available at:

http://sri.ciifad.cornell.edu/aboutsri/othercrops/SCImonograph_SRIRice2014.pdf

Why Hunger Year. Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty into Action (undated). Available at:

http://whyhunger.org//getInfo/showArticle?articleId=4137

Wing S, Johnson J. Industrial Hog Operations in North Carolina Disproportionately Impact African-Americans, Hispanics and American Indians. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Epidemiology; 2014. Available at: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/UNC-Report.pdf

Women for Women International - United Kingdom (UK). “Women inherit wrappers, men

inherit fields”: The problem of women’s access to land in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of

Congo (Research Report). London, UK: Women for Women International; December 2014.

Available at:

http://www.womenforwomen.org.uk/sites/default/files/WfWI_DRC_Research_Report.pdf

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Websites:

Agricultural Justice Project

http://agriculturaljusticeproject.org/?page_id=13

American Community Gardening Association

https://communitygarden.org

American Farmland Trust

https://www.farmland.org/

Berkeley Food Institute

http://food.berkeley.edu/

Beyond the Peel

http://www.beyondthepeel.com/

Bread for the World

http://www.bread.org

Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment – Sustainable Agriculture

http://www.crpe-ej.org/crpe/index.php/campaigns/sustainable-agriculture

Civic Ecology Lab - Cornell University

http://civicecology.org/

Community Agroecology Network

http://www.canunite.org/

Corporate Accountability International

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/

Earthjustice

http://earthjustice.org/tags/gmo

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Environmental Protection Agency – Environmental Justice

http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice

ETC Group

http://www.etcgroup.org

Equal Exchange

http://equalexchange.coop

Equitable Food Initiative

http://www.equitablefood.org/#!

Fair Food Network

http://www.fairfoodnetwork.org/list/farm-and-food-jobs

FARM AID

https://www.farmaid.org

Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

http://farmandranchfreedom.org

Farmworker Justice https://www.farmworkerjustice.org

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

http://www.fao.org/themes/en

Food and Water Watch – Right to Water

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/world-water/right

Food Democracy Now

http://www.fooddemocracynow.org

Food Chains Workers Alliance

http://foodchainworkers.org

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Food First – Institute for Food and Development Policy

http://foodfirst.org/

Food 4 Farmers

http://food4farmers.org

Food Tank

http://foodtank.com

Gaia Foundation

http://www.gaiafoundation.org

GRAIN

https://www.grain.org

Grassroots International

http://www.grassrootsonline.org/

Groundswell International

http://www.groundswellinternational.org/

Growing Power

http://www.growingpower.org/

Healthy Food Access Portal

http://www.healthyfoodaccess.org/

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

http://www.iatp.org/

Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK)

http://icik.psu.edu/

Jane Goodall Institute

http://www.janegoodall.org/

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Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots

http://www.rootsandshoots.org/

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/

Just Food

http://justfood.org

Kitchen Gardeners International

http://kgi.org

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer?navid=KNOWYOURFARMER

LAND MATRIX

http://www.landmatrix.org/en

La Via Campesina

http://viacampesina.org/en

National Family Farm Coalition

http://nffc.net/

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

http://sustainableagriculture.net

Never Ending Food

http://www.neverendingfood.org

Oakland Food Policy Council – (‘Right to Grow’ Campaign Victory, Food Justice Curriculum, Equity

Checklist, Food Hustle Guide)

http://oaklandfood.org

Occidental College – Food Justice

http://www.oxy.edu/life-oxy/sustainability/food-justice

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Organic Seed Alliance

http://www.seedalliance.org

Oxfam International – GROW Campaign

https://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/about-grow

Real Food Challenge

http://www.realfoodchallenge.org

Rodale Institute

http://rodaleinstitute.org

Roots of Change

http://www.rootsofchange.org

Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) USA

http://rafiusa.org

Seed Savers Exchange

http://www.seedsavers.org

Small Planet Institute

http://smallplanet.org/about

The Center for Public Integrity – Environmental Justice, Denied

http://www.publicintegrity.org/environment/environmental-justice-denied

The Green Belt Movement

http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai

The Land Institute

https://landinstitute.org/

Trees for Life International

https://www.treesforlife.org/our-work/our-initiatives/moringa/nutritional-information

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University of California, Santa Cruz – Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

http://casfs.ucsc.edu

University of Vermont – Agroecological Rural Livelihoods Group

http://www.uvm.edu/~agroecol

Urban Land Institute

http://uli.org

USDA - Farm to School Resources

http://www.fns.usda.gov/farmtoschool/farm-school-resources

USDA’s National Farmers’ Market Directory

http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) & Oregon Tilth – 2015 Webinar Series

http://tilth.org/webinars

U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance

http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org

Waterkeeper Alliance

http://waterkeeper.org

Why Hunger Year

http://www.whyhunger.org

Women for Women International

http://www.womenforwomen.org.uk