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The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address -- together with environmental and planning questions -- the most fundamental issues of spatial justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. Through a critical exploration of international case studies, this collection investigates whether, and how, gardeners are willing and able to contrast urban spatial arrangements that produce peculiar forms of social organisation and structures for inclusion and exclusion, by considering pervasive inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.

Urban gardening --- Social aspects. --- City gardening --- Gardening --- 712.3 --- Social aspects --- Landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur--tuinen --- Peace, justice and strong institutions. --- food security/food justice. --- neoliberalism. --- political gardening. --- right to the city. --- social cohesion. --- social justice. --- spatial justice. --- sustainability. --- urban agriculture. --- urban development. --- urban gardening. --- urban planning.

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The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and "food deserts" for the historically marginalized. In response, food justice activists based in low-income communities of color have developed community-based solutions, arguing that activities like urban agriculture, nutrition education, and food-related social enterprises can drive systemic social change. Focusing on the work of several food justice groups-including Community Services Unlimited, a South Los Angeles organization founded as the nonprofit arm of the Southern California Black Panther Party-More Than Just Food explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex.

Social justice --- Minorities --- Food industry and trade --- Food supply --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Food --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food technology --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Nutrition --- Social aspects --- Processing --- E-books --- american food industry. --- community services unlimited. --- factory food. --- food and hunger. --- food and nutrition in the us. --- food and nutrition. --- food crisis. --- food deserts. --- food industry. --- food insecurity. --- food justice movement. --- food justice. --- food production. --- food related inequality. --- industrial food system. --- nonprofit industrial complex. --- nutrition education. --- nutritionists. --- urban agriculture. --- us food crisis. --- us industrial food system.

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The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods-millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example-are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots-"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"-became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.

Black people --- Enslaved persons --- Ethnobotany --- Plants, Edible --- Medicinal plants --- History. --- America --- Civilization --- African influences. --- africa. --- african american history. --- african dispora. --- african history. --- african plants. --- african slaves. --- agriculture history. --- agriculture. --- asian long bean. --- atlantic slave trade. --- black history. --- coca cola. --- coffee. --- environmental history. --- food and cooking. --- food and culture. --- food history. --- food justice. --- food plots. --- food studies. --- foodways. --- herbal. --- millet. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- okra. --- palmolive. --- plantation. --- race. --- slave food. --- slave ships. --- slave trade. --- slavery. --- slaves. --- sorghum. --- transatlantic slave trade. --- watermelon. --- west africa. --- worcestershire sauce.

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An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States. Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system. Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are—despite a range of challenges—actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.

Hispanic American farmers --- Agriculture --- Farmers, Hispanic American --- Farmers --- food justice --- race and food --- sustainable farming --- sustainable agriculture --- sustainable food --- alternative agriculture --- alternative food --- immigrant agriculture --- food sovereignty --- farmworkers --- farmworker justice --- immigration and food --- slow food --- eco-food --- just food --- food culture --- immigrant rights --- Mexican immigration --- Latino --- latinx --- Latinoa agriculture --- Latinoa farmers --- Latinx agriculture --- Mexican foodways --- Mexican agriculture --- new farmers --- beginning farmers --- organic farming --- organic farmers --- agrifood systems --- food and society --- agricultural ladder --- agroecology --- agricultural institutions --- farmers markets --- USDA --- agricultural extension --- agricultural technical support --- Agricultural Census --- family labor --- farm labor --- food labor --- agricultural labor --- land reform --- small-scale farming --- diverse farming --- farm scale --- family farming --- food security --- foodways --- farmers of color --- racism

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From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. 'A Recipe for Gentrification' explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply - and, at times, controversially - intertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises - including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers' markets - to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement.

Discrimination --- Minorities --- Food consumption --- Food --- Gentrification --- Nutrition --- Political aspects. --- United States. --- Black growers. --- Chicago. --- Cleveland. --- Culture. --- Displacement. --- Durham. --- Food intersections. --- Food justice. --- Food movement. --- Food praxis. --- Food retail. --- Food sovereignty. --- Green gentrification. --- Land justice. --- New York City. --- North Carolina. --- Political economy. --- Puerto Rico. --- Redevelopment. --- Restaurants. --- San Francisco. --- Seattle. --- Taste. --- Urban agriculture. --- Urban studies. --- activism. --- authenticity. --- collaboration. --- community gardens. --- decolonize. --- development. --- diaspora. --- entrepreneurial development. --- fetishization. --- food cooperatives. --- foodies. --- growth machine. --- land access. --- local food. --- long-term residents. --- multiculturalism. --- neoliberal urbanization. --- neoliberalism. --- resistance. --- social enterprise. --- social movements.