Food Justice

Montgomery County Public Schools Special Needs Bus Attendant Bhavin Savla helps distribute bags of food donated by Manna Food Center at Quince Orchard High School as part of a program to feed children while schools are closed due to the coronavirus March 20, 2020 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Millions of children across the country rely on meals they get at school, which are closed in an attempt to suppress transmission of the COVID-19 virus. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Pandemic Reveals Racial Gaps in School Meal Access

January 26, 2021

Researchers are documenting the ways food distribution locations have been out of reach for Black and Latinx families.

As COVID-19 Ups the Stakes, Advocates Say Prison Food Needs an Overhaul

By Nadra Nittle

January 21, 2021

an inmate receives a fresh orange instead of unhealthy prison food

On MLK Day: Our Stories on Food and Democracy

By The Civil Eats Editors

January 18, 2021

Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967 at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Does Regenerative Agriculture Have a Race Problem?

By Gosia Wozniacka

January 5, 2021

a black farmer standing in front of a tractor.

Our Best Food Justice Stories of 2020

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 30, 2020

Harlem Grown's Tony Hillery. (Photo courtesy of Harlem Grown)

Op-ed: Now Is the Time for Cooking Schools to Offer Culinary Activism 101

By Robert Egger

December 18, 2020

A team of students and chefs at Santa Fe Community College prepares a community meal. (Photo courtesy of Robert Egger)

California Farmers of Color Need More Support During the Pandemic. Can Private Efforts Help?

By Hannah Ricker

December 14, 2020

Harvesting peanuts for Sister Farms. (Photo credit: Slow Food East Bay)

Op-ed: Dear Secretary of Agriculture, This Is Your Chance

By Ricardo Salvador

December 11, 2020

Tom Vilsack speaks during day two of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Once Called Naïve for His Focus on Returning Land to Black Farmers, Thomas Mitchell Is Now a MacArthur Genius

By Nadra Nittle

December 9, 2020

A Black farmer and a child drive a tractor on the farm.

The 2020 Social Justice Movements Were Fed by Food Trucks and Chefs

By Andy Hirschfeld

December 4, 2020

Handing out tacos to voters from a Vote.org food truck

Black Farmers Say They Were Dropped from the USDA’s Food Box Program

By Gosia Wozniacka

December 1, 2020

Indian Springs Farmers Cooperative workers packing food boxes for the Federation’s contract

Black Land Matters. But Is Crowdfunding Enough?

By Nadra Nittle

November 17, 2020

A Black farmer in a greenhouse growing crops to plant in the soil. Photo courtesy of Amber Tamm Canty.

A New Native Seed Cooperative Aims to Rebuild Indigenous Foodways

By Ray Levy Uyeda

November 10, 2020

A hand holding native seeds. Photo courtesy of Rowen White

It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit

By Rhonda J. Smith, Planet Detroit

November 6, 2020

The Oakland Avenue Urban Farm. (Photo courtesy of Planet Detroit)

Fighting Voter Suppression, Environmental Racism, and Corporate Agriculture in Hog Country

By Christina Cooke

October 22, 2020

Site manager Eileen Bowman wears a "REGISTER & VOTE" mask as long lines of voters wait to cast early voting ballots at Roxborough High School on October 17, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Black Grandmothers Feed their Communities, and Pass on Food Traditions—Online

By Hannah Wallace

October 21, 2020

Two of the Grandma's Hands chefs posing in the kitchen. (Photo credit: Robin Franzen Parker)

Hmong Farmers Are Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement in Minnesota

By Cinnamon Janzer

October 7, 2020

A Hmong farmer picking crops in the farm field. (Photo credit Mike Hazard / HAFA)

Ensuring Homeless Americans Get Enough Food Has Never Been Easy. Now, It’s Next to Impossible.

October 6, 2020

Ventura County Rescue Mission workers hand out food packages to the homeless on March 31, 2020 in Ventura, California.

What Life Is Like for Immigrant New York Street Vendors

By María Inés Taracena, Prism

October 2, 2020

A new york city street food vendor sells pastries outside the subway station

Brazil’s Landless Workers Persist through Agroecology

By Rafael Forsetto

September 30, 2020

A woman plants seedlings as part of a partnership with the MST. (Photo credit: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil)

Deepa Iyer Is Farming for Social Justice

By Hannah Wallace

September 18, 2020

Victor Anagli and Deepa Iyer at Ayeko Farm. (Photo courtesy of Deepa Iyer)

Op-ed: How Patents Threaten Small Seed Companies

By Kristina "Kiki" Hubbard

September 11, 2020

Organic Seed Alliance's field crew cleans organic spinach seed at the organization's research farm in Chimcum, Washington. Photo credit: Shawn Linehan.

15 Stories About How the Pandemic is Impacting Food and Farm Workers

By The Civil Eats Editors

September 7, 2020

farmworkers picking corn

New Support for Refugee Farmers Hard Hit by the Pandemic

By Ambika Samarthya-Howard

September 4, 2020

Tika Bhandari of Bhutan works in her farm. Photo credit: Bob Blanchard

Is the Vegan Movement Ready to Reckon with Racism?

By Charlie Mitchell

August 26, 2020

Whtie vegans protest outside an ice cream shop in Venice Beach, California