Three Strategies To Foster Diversity in the Food Movement
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.030
Keywords:
Alternative Food Systems, Atlanta, Coalition, Collaboration, Diversity, Inequity, Farmers, Food Justice, Race, Racism, StrategiesAbstract
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.
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