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Growing Food

Turning Teachers into Gardeners By Jane Black Posted March 29, 2013 School gardens are all the rage. But teachers, already under intense pressure to perform, often don’t have the time or the know-how to plant and maintain a garden, let alone use it in creative ways to teach math, science or art.	Young Black Farmers: Growing Our Own Path Posted December 7, 2012 Kelvin Graddick's new blog, Growing Our Own Path, is the story of a young, black farmer's journey to revitalize his family's farmer cooperative	Turning garbage into food By Jane Black Posted November 28, 2012 Jeremy Brosowsky founded Compost Cab as a way to collect compostable material from people in the city who would otherwise have to send it to a landfill.	Video: Busting the "feeding the world" myth of industrial agriculture Video By Mark Muller Posted October 24, 2012 In this six-minute video Anna Lappé reveals the holes in industrial agriculture's story about "feeding the world."
Land and Power in Detroit By Malik Yakini Posted October 15, 2012 As we struggle to foster food security, food justice and food sovereignty, the question of land, who “owns” it, who controls it and who benefits from it, must be in the forefront of our discussions.	Building Gardens, Rebuilding Community By Andrea King Collier Posted October 10, 2012 Jenga Mwendo is building gardens in the Lower Ninth's food deserts	Droughts and Mirages in Washington and Beyond By Raj Patel Posted July 26, 2012 Raj Patel's thoughts on the drought, dustbowl, and what it’s going to take to get politicians off their knees.	For small farmers, a spreadsheet alternative By Jane Black Posted July 25, 2012 An innovative new software program aims to make essential management tasks easy for small farmers.
Black Men in the Food System: Roles and Opportunities, Rural to Urban Video Posted July 24, 2012 Malik Yakini, Haile Johnston and Kelvin Graddick discuss the roles and opportunities for Black men in the food system both through a rural and urban lens.	Organic vs Industrial Agriculture Rematch By Raj Patel Posted May 3, 2012 The latest in the war over whether organic agriculture can feed the world.	Kelvin Graddick, Young Farmer Video Posted April 3, 2012 Kelvin sheds light on being a young Black farmer who is working the same land that his grandmother farmed in Georgia five decades ago.	Jenga Mwendo, New Orleans Community Organizer Video Posted April 2, 2012 Jenga is using gardens and growing food to build community and strong neighborhoods as she works to revitalize New Orleans, post-Katrina.

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Ideas in focus

Cultivating Leadership and Equity in the Food Movement

April 2013

The IATP Food and Community Fellows Program is coming to an end, but it's springtime for our work growing equity in the food system and cultivating diverse leadership in the movement.

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Movement Building Health Equity Food Workers Community Economic Development Food Policy Growing Food Children's Health and Well-being Food and Culture

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