- "The Food Justice Movement is a grassroots initiative which emerged in response to food insecurity and economic pressures that prevent access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods."
The ethical issues surrounding food distribution and access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food options on a local, national, and global level, including the role of food deserts, food apartheid, and food sovereignty.
Access to Healthy and Nutritious Food: Studies and discussions on how access to healthy and nutritious food is unequally distributed across different communities, and how this exacerbates existing health inequalities.
Food Insecurity: Discussions on how individuals do not have access to sufficient food due to factors such as poverty, and how this presents a public health concern.
Farmworker Rights: Studies and discussions on how farmworkers are exploited and undercompensated, and how this affects the wider food system.
Food Waste Reduction: Discussions on the impact of food waste on society and the globe, and efforts to minimize food waste.
Food Policy and Regulation: Discussions on policies related to food, their impact, and how they can be improved to promote food justice.
Community Food Programs: Discussions on community-based initiatives designed to promote equitable access to healthy and nutritious foods, and involvement in local food production.
Local Food Systems: Discussions on the concept of building localized food systems that prioritize community engagement, sovereign decision making, and ecological sustainability.
Agribusiness and Corporate Control over Food Systems: Discussions on how giant corporations control the food production and how this affects the supply chain.
Health and Nutrition Education: Discussions on how individuals can develop lifelong healthy eating behaviours and advocate for a fair and equitable food system.
Food Sovereignty: The idea that food systems need to be controlled locally and by communities; this includes the right to choose what is grown and how it is grown.
Food Access: Ensuring that everyone has access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food regardless of their income, location, or status.
Food Sovereignty: The right of people to have control over their food and food systems; it is a movement that emphasizes food democracy, autonomy, and sustainability.
Food Security: The state of having access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets one's dietary needs and preferences.
Food Waste Justice: The recognition that food waste is a social and environmental issue that negatively impacts food security, the environment, and the economy, and seeking solutions to better use and distribute excess food.
Land Justice: The protection and promotion of the rights of land, water, and other natural resources used for food production, distribution, and consumption.
Labor Justice: The recognition that food workers are critical partners in delivering a safe and nutritious food supply chain and deserve fair wage, benefits, and safe working conditions.
Dietary Justice: The notion that everyone deserves to have access to food that is healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate, and that people should not face stigma, discrimination, or bias based on their dietary choices or restrictions.
Environmental Justice: The recognition that food production, transportation, and distribution have significant environmental impacts such as pollution, soil depletion, and climate change, and that equitable solutions must be sought.
Racial and Social Justice: Addressing the systemic inequalities and structural racism that lead to discrimination and marginalization in the food system, acknowledging and addressing the histories of exploitation, slavery, and colonization that underpin social and economic inequalities.
Policy Justice: Advocating for policies and regulations that promote food justice and equity, recognizing that public policies related to access, safety, and availability of food can and should be more equitable.
- "It includes more broad policy movements, such as the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations."
- "Food justice recognizes the food system as 'a racial project and problematizes the influence of race and class on the production, distribution and consumption of food'."
- "This encompasses farm labor work, land disputes, issues of status and class, environmental justice, public politics, and advocacy."
- "Food justice is closely connected to food sovereignty, which critiques 'structural barriers communities of color face to accessing local and organic foods' that are largely due to institutional racism and the effect it has on economic equality."
- "It is argued that lack of access to good food is both a cause and a symptom of the structural inequalities that divide society."
- "A possible solution presented for poor areas includes community gardens, fairness for food workers, and a national food policy."
- "Economic pressures that prevent access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods."
- "The influence of race and class on the production, distribution and consumption of food."
- "Farm labor work, land disputes, issues of status and class, environmental justice, public politics, and advocacy."
- "Food justice is closely connected to food sovereignty."
- "Structural barriers communities of color face to accessing local and organic foods."
- "Lack of access to good food is both a cause and a symptom of the structural inequalities that divide society."
- "A possible solution presented for poor areas includes community gardens, fairness for food workers, and a national food policy."
- "To address food insecurity and economic pressures that prevent access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods."
- "The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations."
- "As a racial project and problematizes the influence of race and class on the production, distribution and consumption of food."
- "Farm labor work, land disputes, issues of status and class, environmental justice, public politics, and advocacy."
- "Structural barriers communities of color face to accessing local and organic foods are largely due to institutional racism."
- "Possible solutions include community gardens, fairness for food workers, and a national food policy."