food justice

Welcome to Unit 6:
FOOD JUSTICE
What is food justice?

"How have ideologies of nature operated in political spaces? When we look closely what can we learn about the 'complex connections between environmental and social politics as they are made manifest in people's daily lives?" (Kozek, 2006)

SUMMARY OF UNIT 6 READINGS

environmental degradation

Disproportionate impact

Mainstream food movements

Invisible disability

...myths of independence

Uncovering complicity

"Food justice seeks to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what, and how food is grown, produced, transported, distributed, accessed and eaten are shared fairly. It represents a transformation of the current food system, including but not limited to eliminating disparities and inequities."

Favourite foods activity

Making food justice personal

decolonizing food

• "Should we not consider how a call to eat locally invokes spaces that have been settled, colonized, ruptured, and remade through complex processes of human movement and environmental history making?"

2) Is it not necessary to stand in solidarity with those communities that are disallowed from celebrating their local food because of forced displacement at the hands of ...settler-led or corporate-engineered takeover of rural lands, seeds, and livelihoods?

6 guiding principles

• Focus on food for people
• Value food providers
• Localize food systems
• Localize control
• Build knowledge and skills
• Work with nature

7th Food Sovereignty Principle

• Understands food as sacred, part of the web of relationships with the natural world that define culture and community.

Breastfeeding

The addition of the 7th pillar emphasizes that Indigenous perspectives are integral to creating sustainable and equitable food systems in Canada

4 Priority recommendations:

• A return to the agreements made in treaties, along with land reform and redistribution;
• An integration of the Indigenous concept of harmony with nature into resource-based policy;

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• Addressing the socioeconomic determinants of health that are negatively affecting Indigenous peoples;
• Rebuilding relationships between Indigenous peoples and stakeholders.

4 principles of ifs:

• Sacred responsibility to the land must be prioritized over colonial law;
• Community needs should be self-determined;
• Active participation in a food system is necessary;
• Policy reform is required to guide & support these principles.

CASE STUDY 2

"At this time in Canada's history, we cannot try to fix our food system without tackling the legacy of colonialism and residential schools, and acknowledge the urgency of Indigenous food sovereignty."
How can food movements be more effective accomplices in the work of decolonization?