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Slow Food Wants to Bring Justice, Education, and Joy to the Food Experience

NonProfit Quarterly

Currently, over a third of Americans spend 10 percent of their annual income on fast food and consume such food daily. The Slow Food movement emerged from a protest in Italy during the 1980s against a major fast-food chain’s expansion near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Slow Food’s Principles and Practices.

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A Growing Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is part of Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. Confronting a history of exclusion.

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Remaking the Economy: Black Food Sovereignty, Community Stories

NonProfit Quarterly

What does the struggle for Black food sovereignty look like at the local level? In this webinar conversation, five Black food justice leaders share their experiences. All five panelists were all article authors of NPQ ’s fall 2022 series on Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Good Medicine: Centering Food Justice Work in Indigenous Maternal Knowledge

NonProfit Quarterly

When one of us in the community gave birth, we would support the new mother for 40 days in this manner by bringing food. It impacted the local food system in South Phoenix, and many food-based businesses faced closure. Prior to the pandemic, the business, Sana Sana Foods , was thriving, with a well-known food truck.

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Step-by-Step Plan for Activating Fundraising Ambassadors

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For example, my friend operates a food pantry, and she did not like a video a volunteer made about getting ready to volunteer at the food pantry. My friend thought the video of a volunteer deciding what to wear to the food pantry made light of food insecurity and struck the wrong tone. And that’s what it’s all about!

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