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An activist approach to food insecurity: An examination of three urban gardening organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
My research examines the efforts of urban gardening organizations to reverse trends of hunger and food insecurity in low-income communities of color. I describe how these organizations utilize the frameworks and goals of urban social movements, specifically the environmental justice, community food security, and food justice movements. In particular, I study each organization’s ability to use agroecological growing practices and to empower low-income people of color. I also examine how the way that organizations frame themselves effects their day-to-day operations and ability to both involve and serve community members. |
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1998, B.S. University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and the Environment |
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