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21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems

Food Tank

This spring, dig into the complexities of the modern food systemand dont be afraid to get your hands dirty! These books will help satisfy your appetite for knowledge and inspire you to work toward a more just and sustainable food system. Gluten Free for Life: Celiac Disease, Medical Recognition, and the Food Industry by Emily K.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Food Tank is rounding up 25 books about the past, present, and future of global food and agriculture systems to get you through the winter. Insatiable City by Theresa McCulla explores race, power, and social status in New Orleans through the lens of food. In Chop Chop , Ozoz Sokoh celebrates Nigerian cuisine through 100 recipes.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

This designation helps sustain Native culture, reassure public health, and encourage state food sovereignty. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to embrace these benefits. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Jubilee Justice Specialty Foods co-op members. Land access was the first step.

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Returning the ‘Three Sisters’ – Corn, Beans and Squash – to Native American Farms Nourishes People, Land and Cultures

Daily Yonder

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. For centuries before Europeans reached North America, many Native Americans grew these foods together in one plot, along with the less familiar sunflower.

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Q&A: A New Book Tells the Story of Food, From the Civil Rights Movement to Now

Daily Yonder

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. His first book , “Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” was published in August 2023 by the University of North Carolina Press. Like what you see here?

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