num_pages: 296
description: The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and food deserts for the historically marginalized. In response food justice activists based in low-income communities of color have developed community-based solutions arguing that activities like urban agriculture nutrition education and food-related social enterprises can drive systemic social change. Focusing on the work of several food justice groupsincluding Community Services Unlimited a South Los Angeles organization founded as the nonprofit arm of the Southern California Black Panther Party More Than Just Food explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex.
language: English
title: More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change (Volume 60)
publisher: University of California Press