Community-Driven Strategies for Food Justice

The Praxis Project is excited to launch our third season of the In Praxis podcast. In season 3, we're exploring community-driven strategies for food justice. Food is core to all of our lives and helps foster connection with one another. Food is life, food is story. It gives energy to our work, bodies, and community. It allows us to show up every day, for ourselves and the communities we serve. Working towards food justice speaks to our resilience, survival, justice, love, and joy in a system governed by food apartheid and rooted in colonialism, imperialism, racism, and slavery.

We spoke to leaders in the space of food justice and food sovereignty to learn how their work rejects the capitalist commercial food system and embraces a system dedicated to providing a pathway to freedom and liberation. Collectively through these interviews, we define food sovereignty as bearing witness to our food histories, passing on intergenerational farming knowledge, saving seeds, reintroducing ancestral super foods, regenerative land use, and ensuring biodiversity in our environment and on our plates. It addresses the intersections of food justice, economic justice, disinvestment, and marketing manipulation.

In this season, we are excited to introduce you to our guests! They are incredible community organizers, thought leaders, and advocates working across the country to advance fair farming practices, community-led urban farming, and equitable food procurement and retail. These are their stories about how we feed our communities with healthy, culturally appropriate, fair, and affordable food and build community power to advance health equity through food justice.

Listen to the first episode now featuring Emanuel Brown from the Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom and tune in every other week for new episodes!