Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers
and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits …

Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been
increasingly connecting the commons and social movements empirically, giving shape to a …

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United
States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their …

In late 2015, the majority of the world's governments agreed to commenced implementation
in 2016 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 and the Paris Agreement on …

Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that
UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio …

How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it
From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the …

Food access literature links disinvested communities with poor food access. Similarly, links
are made between discriminatory housing practices and contemporary investment. Less …

Gardening provides a wide range of benefits to urban residents but may also increase risks
of exposure to contaminants in soils. Here we evaluate the use of clean excavated glacial …

Objective: The emerging concept of 'food justice'describes a social movement and a set of
principles. It align with the goals of social justice, demanding recognition of human rights …

This article examines the question of why local food has become, for many activists and
scholars, a core concept for understanding food systems and globalization and for …