Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. Alison Hope Alkon, co-editor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability, will speak about the ways that race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. After her talk, Alison will facilitate a discussion of how issues of race and class affect the diverse and vibrant movements working to create a more just and sustainable agriculture. Sponsored by the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning at PSU.

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