Academic/Peer-Reviewed Resources
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Special Issue: US Farm Bill: Policy, Politics, and Potential Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. Editors: Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Adam Diamond, and Nina F. Ichikawa
Contextualizing the Farm Bill: questions of food, land and agricultural governance (our intro essay to special feature)
Ecological costs of discrimination: racism, red cedar and resilience in farm bill conservation policy in Oklahoma (Fagundes et al) - our practicum team’s essay co-authored with Lorette P & Mr Tillman
Make federal food assistance rights-based (Anderson)
“Q&A: Can the Farm Bill Promote Racial Justice?” with Sara Kaplan. Daily Yonder. Olivia Weeks. April 2024
2024 Graddy-Lovelace, G. and Antonio Roman-Alcalá. “Agroecology Beyond the Statist Quo? Transforming US Imperial Agricultural Policy” for Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development. 13(3): 1-7. Special Issue: “Commentaries from the US Agroecology Summit 2023”
2019 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance” Annals of American Association of Geographers. Special Issue: “Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era” 109(2): 1-17.
Ayazi and Elshaeikh. 2015. The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System. UC Berkeley Report.
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Disparity to Parity (D2P)
So many great essays and webinars and documentary shorts on this website - perhaps we pull forth the ones related to racial justice?
Shaffer and Ray. 2020. Agricultural supply management and farm policy (in the Special feature above, but a classic with regard to how supply management works)
2017 Graddy-Lovelace, G. and A. Diamond. “From Supply Management to Agricultural Subsidies— and Back Again? US Farm Bill & Agrarian (In)Viability” Journal of Rural Studies. 50: 70-83
Graddy-Lovelace, G., Krikorian, J., A. Jewett, A. Vivekanandan, K. Stahl, B. Wilson, I. Shekhar Singh, G. Naylor, P. Naylor, J. Pennick. 2023. “Parity as Radical Pragmatism: Centering Farm Justice & Agrarian Expertise in Agricultural Policy” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
· Howe, M et al. 2024. “Is parity pricing enough? A critical analysis of parity pricing and the case for additional strategies” Sustainable Agriculture 2(11): 1-10.
Berry, Wendell. 1970. Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
2021 Graddy-Lovelace, G. and P. Naylor. “Disparity to Parity to Solidarity: Balancing the Scales of Agricultural Policy for Justice & Viability” Development. Special Issue: “Resetting Power in Global Food Governance: The United Nations Food Systems Summit”
McGranahan et al. 2013. “A historical primer on the US farm bill: Supply management and conservation policy”
2021 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Farmer & Non-Farmer Responsibility to Each Other: Negotiating the Social Contracts & Public Good of Agriculture” Journal of Rural Studies 82: 531-541.
2020. Watson and Wilson. “Two hidden histories of rural racial solidarity movements” Journal of Rural Studies.
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White, Monica. 2018. Freedom Farmer: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement.
Woods, Clyde. 1998. Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. “Introduction: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?”
·Washington, Karen. 2018. ‘It’s Not a Food Dessert, It’s Food Apartheid’
Penniman, Leah. 2018. Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Baxter, Cooper, Fraser, Taylor. 2017. “Womanism As Agrarianism: Black Women Healing through Innate Agrarian Artistry” in Land Justice: Reimagining Land, Food and the Commons
Black Earth Wisdom (Penniman et al. 2023)
bell hooks - Sisters of the Yam
King et al. 2018. “Black Agrarianism: The Significance of African American Landownership in the Rural South”
McCutcheon, P. 2021. “Growing Black food on sacred land: Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future”
Grant, Wood & Wright. “Black Farmers United: The Struggle Against Power and Principalities”
Wright, W Jamaal. 2013. “The Black Farmers’ Struggle and Its Importance to the Local Food Movement”
Wright, McCreary, Williams, Bledsoe. 2020. “RACE, LAND, AND THE LAW: Black Farmers and the Limits of a Politics of Recognition” chapter in Black Food Matters (Garth and Reese)
2019. McCutcheon, Priscilla. “Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms and Black Agrarian Geographies” Antipode.
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Land Justice: Re-Imagining Land, Food & Commons in the U.S. ed Justine Williams & Eric Holt-Gimenez, Food First 2017 - the whole book~!
Pahnke and Treakle. 2023. “From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy“
Patel, Raj and J Moore – A History of World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature & the Future of the Planet
IPES-Food, 2023. “Breaking the cycle of unsustainable food systems, hunger, and debt”
Graddy-Lovelace. 2017. “The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice” Journal of Peasant Studies. 44:1, 78-99
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Nyélèni Declaration of Food Sovereignty (2007)
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology. Nyéléni, Mali. 2015.
UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants & Others Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)
Seeds of Sovereignty: Contesting Politics of Food. 2024. RosaLuxemburgFoundation - select 3:
o Clapp, J “The Global Food Crisis in the Age of Catastrophe”
o Patel, R “Food Sovereignty in the 2020s”
o Sama, S and A Jasim “Imperialism and Iraq’s Agricultural System”
o Sengupta, R “The International Trade Framework and Recurring Food Crises”
o Belay, M “Africa’s Agricultural Future Lies in Agroecology”
Fakhri, Michael (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food). 2020. The right to food in the context of international trade law and policy. A/75/219
Ferdinand, Malcolm. 2022. Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World
Graddy-Lovelace and Ranganathan. 2024. “Geopolitical Ecology for Our Times” Political Geography. Guest Editorial.
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Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. 2017. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. “Land As Pedagogy”
“The Indigenous People Stewarding the Planet” IFAD Podcast
·Robin Wall Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teachings of Plants & video montage
·Gather (First Nations Dev Institute)
Winona LaDuke – Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming & Claiming. “Food As Medicine: The Recovery of Traditional Foods to Heal the People” pp 191-210
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So much.
Minkoff-Zern and Sloat. 2017. “A new era of civil rights? Latino immigrant farmers and exclusion at the United States Department of Agriculture” Ag & Human Values
Linder. 1986. “Farm Workers and the Fair Labor Standards Act: Racial Discrimination in the New Deal” - an old legal analysis
Crisis politics and US farm labor: health justice and Florida farmworkers amid a pandemic. Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli & Annie Shattuck. 2021. Journal of Peasant Studies