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Our Best Food Justice Stories of 2023

Civil Eats

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. This Community Garden Helps Farmworkers Feed Themselves.

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Oral History Project Preserves Black and Indigenous Food Traditions

Civil Eats

Agriculture has been a way of life and a source of meaning and pride for Black and Indigenous people for centuries, shaping rituals, beliefs, and traditions. Slavery and colonialism exploited their agricultural knowledge and shattered their lives. Civilization is built on the back of successful agriculture.

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