Three Strategies To Foster Diversity in the Food Movement

This commentary explores strategies for coalition-building and reallocating resources across racial divides within alternative food systems. Following analysis of a set of public conversations held in Atlanta, Georgia, in spring 2015, I identify three strategies that may promote greater diversity: (...

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Main Author:	Hilary King
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems 2016-10-01
Series:	Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Subjects:	Alternative Food Systems Atlanta Coalition Collaboration Diversity Inequity
Online Access:	https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/385

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spelling	doaj-10921708c65149d39fe665bcaaee68c12020-11-25T03:50:04ZengThomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012016-10-015410.5304/jafscd.2015.054.030385Three Strategies To Foster Diversity in the Food MovementHilary King0Emory UniversityThis commentary explores strategies for coalition-building and reallocating resources across racial divides within alternative food systems. Following analysis of a set of public conversations held in Atlanta, Georgia, in spring 2015, I identify three strategies that may promote greater diversity: (1) the allocation of institutional and academic resources beyond historically privileged spaces; (2) the development of a shared historical context for framing and shaping collaborative, antiracist work; and (3) the commitment of policy-makers to execute the ideas of food producers. These strategies, pursued in conjunction, may aid in addressing regional and neighborhood discrepancies in representation in food system leadership and also foster a stronger, antiracist alternative food system.https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/385Alternative Food SystemsAtlantaCoalitionCollaborationDiversityInequity
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title	Three Strategies To Foster Diversity in the Food Movement
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description	This commentary explores strategies for coalition-building and reallocating resources across racial divides within alternative food systems. Following analysis of a set of public conversations held in Atlanta, Georgia, in spring 2015, I identify three strategies that may promote greater diversity: (1) the allocation of institutional and academic resources beyond historically privileged spaces; (2) the development of a shared historical context for framing and shaping collaborative, antiracist work; and (3) the commitment of policy-makers to execute the ideas of food producers. These strategies, pursued in conjunction, may aid in addressing regional and neighborhood discrepancies in representation in food system leadership and also foster a stronger, antiracist alternative food system.
topic	Alternative Food Systems Atlanta Coalition Collaboration Diversity Inequity
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