Wikipedia:WikiProject/NAL/Food Justice 2024
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Everyone deserves access to quality, culturally appropriate foods, but food inequity and lack of access are global issues. This event features Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III and Dr. Bobby J. Smith, II, who will share the history of food justice movements and activism in the United States and beyond. They will highlight current programs, organizations, and activists dedicated to creating a more equitable food system and ensuring more people can access healthy food. They will end by discussing the future of the food justice movement. The event will end with a question and answer session.
The afternoon session consists of an optional Wikipedia editing training session and editing time to focus on food justice, food systems, and food insecurity.
Please register on Zoom. The confirmation email will include access to the virtual event. Full-day attendance is not required.
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When
- July 9, 2024
- 10:30am-3:00pm Eastern
Where
- Virtual!
Details
- No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary; training will be provided.
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[edit]10:30-10:35 Welcome, Scott Hanscom, Acting Director, USDA National Agricultural Library
10:35 - 12:00 Panel discussion with Scott, Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III, Founder of the Black Church Food Security Network and Dr. Bobby J. Smith, II, interdisciplinary scholar of the African American agricultural and food experience at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The speakers will spend 5 minutes each introducing themselves, then we will launch into the discussion. Participants are welcome to submit questions throughout the event. Any questions we run out of time for will be answered via email later.
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30 - 1:00 Wikipedia Editing Training, Jamie Flood, USDA National Agricultural Library
1:00-3:00 Editing time, questions and follow-up, one-on-one training as needed. Take breaks as needed. Shortly before 3:30 we will wrap up by reviewing our editing statistics. Feel free to take breaks as needed. Live editing demos will be available.
Speaker Information
[edit]Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III has been a catalyst for personal transformation and social change for more than twenty years. He served as the pastor of a Baptist church in Baltimore for nearly 14 years where he saw and personally experienced the impacts of food apartheid. In 2010, he launched Orita's Cross Freedom School to provide youth with learning experience that centers African heritage and hands-on skill development. In 2015, he launched the Black Church Food Security Network which advances food security and food sovereignty by co-creating Black food ecosystems anchored by nearly 250 Black congregations in partnership with Black farmers and other food justice stakeholders. He serves on the board of Bread For The World and has garnered numerous awards including an Ashoka Fellowship. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Nothing More Sacred: Radical Stories Of Black Church Faith, Food and Freedom.
Dr. Bobby J. Smith, II is an interdisciplinary scholar of the African American agricultural and food experience. Trained as a sociologist, with a background in agricultural economics, Dr. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies and Fellow in Policy Design Lab in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with affiliations in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, and the Center for Social & Behavioral Science. His research program and teaching agenda cultivates an intellectual sphere and public space to interpret how Black people build agricultural and food systems amid inequalities that orbit the Black world. At the same time, Dr. Smith’s research and teaching illuminates how the building of agricultural and food systems by Black people reconfigures pre-existing conceptualizations of agriculture and food.
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- Food security
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Possible References
[edit]- Local Food Systems - NALC
- Environmental Law - NALC
- Water Law - NALC
- Renewable Energy - NALC
- Biosecurity - NALC
- Twenty-four Hunger and Food Security Issues - NALC
- Nutrition Programs - NALC
- Blueprint for a National Food Strategy - Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School
- Food System Worker - CAFS
- Healthy Food Policy Project - CAFS
- National Gleaning Project - CAFS
- Food Systems Resilience Project - CAFS
- Vermont Legal Food Hub - CAFS
- Local Food Systems
- Community Food Systems Research
- Food Security and Aging
- Hunger And Food Security
- Food Security and Food Access Among Emergency Food Pantry Households
- Quantifying Uncertainty in Food Security Modeling
- Food security and environmental degradation: evidence from developing countries
- Shock interactions, coping strategy choices and household food security
- Agriculture and Food Security
- Food security
- Food security and Covid-19
- Food Security - Policy briefing
- Food Security Livelihoods
- U.S. Food System factsheet
- A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System - Overview of the U.S. Food System
- The Food System
- What Needs to Change in America's Food System
- The Roots of America's Broken Food System
- Food Systems
- Covid-19 and the U.S. Food System
- Food Systems Reader