Food Security & Hunger Resources
These resources were found through the USDA, Feeding America, Food Research & Action Center, Sierra Harvest, East Fork, University of California Press and Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming
Articles
Food Security in the United States: Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS)
Food Insecurity, Chronic Disease, and Health Among Working-Age Adults
"Struggling to Feed the Family: What Does it Mean to Be Food Insecure?"
"Putting Food on the Table: Household Food Security in the United States"
The Great Land Robbery The shameful story of how 1 million black families were ripped from their farms. Vann Newkirk, The Atlantic 09/2019
Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class, and Sustainability Alkon, Alison Hope (edt); Agyeman, Julian (edt)
‘Farming While Black’ is a Guidebook to Dismantle Systemic Racism
It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit
An Indigenous Community Deepens its Agricultural Roots in Tucson’s San Xavier Farm
A California Bill Takes Steps to End Discrimination Against Farmers
There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared?
Food Security, Food Justice, or Food Sovereignty? By Eric Holt-Giménez
Books
Freedom Farmers, Agricultural Resistance Movement, Monica White
Farming While Black, Soul Fire Farms Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, Leah Penniman
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System By Raj Patel
Food Justice (Food, Health, and the Environment) By Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry by Anna Zeide
Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond by Jahi M. Chappell
Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics by Norah MacKendrick
The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico by Alyshia Gálvez
Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California by Julie Guthman
More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change by Garrett Broad
Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production by Sarah Bowen
The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala by Emily Yates-Doerr
The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders by Megan Carney
Ethical Eating in a Socialist and Postsocialist World edited by Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa Caldwell
Balancing on a Planet: The Future of Food and Agriculture by David A. Cleveland
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India by Sarah Besky
Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic by Margaret Gray
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism by Julie Guthman
Videos & Podcasts
Farming While Black – EcoFarm 2020 Keynote Video: Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farms