Just Transitions in a Public School Food System: The Case of Buffalo, New York

Gilbert, Jessica L.; Schindel, Alexandra; Robert, Sarah A.

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2018.08b.011

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“…By helping them move from degenerative farming toward regenerative farming practices, we as a society acknowledge our co-responsibility in food consumption and production and, thereby, help ourselves too. Just Transition, by working toward sound investments, social dialogue, research-based impact assessments, social protection, and economic diversification (Gilbert, Schindel, & Robert, 2018), must be part of this equation.…”

Section: Animal Agriculture Is the 'New Coal'mentioning

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Just Transition for Agriculture? A Critical Step in Tackling Climate Change

Blattner¹

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Just Transition has become an established discursive and conceptual framework to transition economic industries toward a low-carbon and climateresilient future. In the coal and mining industry in particular, it has gained a foothold and transformed politics and livelihoods. In other areas, like animal agriculture, which is equally damaging to the climate, the need for change and the deployment of Just Transition to achieve it are not yet established. Drawing on the most recent scientific insights by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this viewpoint argues that transitioning toward a low-carbon production is just as imperative in agriculture. Specifically, it demands that we move away from animal agriculture. The viewpoint concludes by sketching possible areas and means of intervention.

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Section: Animal Agriculture Is the 'New Coal'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Just Transition for Agriculture? A Critical Step in Tackling Climate Change

Blattner¹

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…This food system intentionally perpetuates race and class discrimination, denying BIPOC communities equitable access to production, distribution, and consumption of food (Alkon and Agyeman, 2011;Holt-Giménez, 2017). FJIs working toward food justice emphasize democratically controlled food systems led by BIPOC communities that prioritize social and ecological well-being and enable communities to equitably exercise their right to grow, sell, and eat fresh, healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate, local food (Alkon and Agyeman, 2011;Cadieux and Slocum, 2015;Gilbert et al, 2018;Sbicca, 2018).…”

Section: Food Justice As Social Movementsmentioning

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Pathways to reparations: land and healing through food justice

Gilbert

Williams²

2020

Human Geography

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While mainstream efforts for reparations center financial compensation via legislation and litigation, social movements expand this conceptualization in order to address critical and yet often overlooked components of reparations. Equitable access to land and opportunities to heal from intergenerational trauma are two of these reparations demands that social movements prioritize. However, there is a dearth of scholarly literature exploring the role and impact of social movements on reparations. Therefore, we seek to develop this important conversation. In doing so, we elucidate the ways in which these two foci of reparations overlap with those of other social movements; food justice initiatives, in particular, also emphasize the connections between racial justice, land justice, and healing. We thus synthesize social movement, food justice, and reparations literatures to examine the overlaps between the goals of food justice initiatives and social movements for reparations. Using two case studies, Tierra Negra and Soul Fire Farm, we demonstrate the ways in which food justice initiatives support social movements for reparations. Contextualizing our analysis within reflections on personal experiences, we argue that through their efforts to transform systems of oppression, food justice initiatives provide an alternative pathway to achieving reparations.

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“…They maintain that a just transition is holistic in scope and encompasses five crucial activities that interact and overlap: democratize engagement, decentralize decision-making, diversify economic activity, decrease consumption, and (re)distribute resources and power. Following Gilbert et al (2018), we argue that Indigenous food initiatives also can be an entry point for introducing a just transition to the local-place-based-food system, which would increase food security, support the environment, and enhance sustainability.…”

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Eating in Place: Mapping Alternative Food Procurement in Canadian Indigenous Communities

Sumner

Tarhan

McMurtry

2019

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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This paper reports on alternative food procurement initiatives in Canadian Indigenous communities. Like many communities around the world, they have experienced the 'nutrition transition' toward nutritionally compromised industrial food, with debilitating results. Much of this change in nutritional status has been created by a lethal combination of self-serving government policy and predatory corporate practice that ghettoizes Indigenous communities within a for-profit pseudo-food system. To find solutions to the colonially structured food deserts imposed on them, many Indigenous communities have turned to the social economy, initiating projects such as community gardens, greenhouses, and cooperatives. While largely unrecognized in the wider world, these initiatives are created and managed by communities, for the benefit of communities, giving us a deeper understanding of what place-based food systems can accomplish.

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Just Transitions in a Public School Food System: The Case of Buffalo, New York

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Just Transition for Agriculture? A Critical Step in Tackling Climate Change

Just Transition for Agriculture? A Critical Step in Tackling Climate Change

Pathways to reparations: land and healing through food justice

Eating in Place: Mapping Alternative Food Procurement in Canadian Indigenous Communities

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