Sharing Knowledge

Sharing knowledge is the act of disseminating information or expertise to others. It can take many forms, including sharing skills and experiences, sharing research and insights, and sharing resources and information. Sharing knowledge can be an important way to build connections, foster collaboration, and promote learning and growth within a community. It can also be a powerful tool for creating positive change and promoting social and economic development. There are many different ways that knowledge can be shared, including through formal education and training programs, informal conversations and discussions, and through the use of technology such as social media and online platforms. Ultimately, sharing knowledge is about fostering a sense of community and working together to create a better future.

Resources

• Anti-Racism Resources

• Negative Effects of the Conventional Food System Map by Elias Berbari, CU Boulder Masters of the Environment and East Denver Food Hub

• Values-Based Local Food Systems Map by Elias Berbari, CU Boulder Masters of the Environment and East Denver Food Hub

• Jefferson County Food Access Maps – Access Mapping

• Are You Ready to Talk? Toolkit – Stanford University

• LARA Method for Managing Tense Talks – Stanford University

• Glossary of Terms – Human Rights Campaign Foundation

• Culturally Responsive Food Initiative – Food Bank of the Rockies

• Hunger Facts – Hunger Free Colorado

• Food Waste Greenhouse Gas Calculator – Watch My Waste

• Applying an Intercultural Competence Lens - A Section from the Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit
  
  

In the Denver Metro Area

Suggested Reading List

Ashanté Reese, “Incarceration, Abolition, and Liberating the Food System,” Civil Eats, January 17, 2022.
https://civileats.com/2022/01/17/incarceration-abolition-prison-liberating-food-system/

Ashanté Reese and Dara Cooper, “Making Spaces Something Like Freedom: Black Feminist Praxis In The Re/Imagining Of A Just Food System,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2021, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 450-459.
https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2024/1582

Ashanté Reese and Randolph Carr, Op-ed: Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm, Civil Eats, June 19, 2020.
https://civileats.com/2020/06/19/op-ed-overthrowing-the-food-systems-plantation-paradigm/

Bowens, Natasha. (2015) The Color of Food, Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming

Carly Fox, Rebecca Fuentes, Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, Gretchen Purser, and Kathleen Sexsmith. 2017. “Milked: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State.” A report by the Workers’ Center of Central New York and the Worker Justice Center of New York., https://milkedny.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/milked_053017.pdf

Carney, Judith (2011) In the Shadow of Slavery, Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the New World

Carney, Judith A (2002) Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas 1st Edition

Castro, Abril (2019) Progressive Governance Can Turn the Tide for Black Farms, Center for American Progress https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/04/03/467892/progressive-governance-can-turn-tide-black-farmers/

Coates, Ta-Nehisi (2014) The Case for Reparations http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Community Recommendations for New York State Food Hub Task Force (2015) http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/community-recommendations-for-new-york-state-food-hub-task-force/

Dañia Davey, “What Would a Pro-Black Farmer Policy Regime Look Like?” NPQ, October 20, 2021.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/what-would-a-pro-black-farmer-policy-regime-look-like/

Darnell Adams, “For Food Co-ops, The Future is Now,” NPQ, June 30, 2020.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/for-food-co-ops-the-future-is-now/

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (2014) An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Flynn et al. (2016) Rewriting the Racial Rules: Building an Inclusive American Economy http://rooseveltinstitute.org/rewrite-racial-rules-building-inclusive-american-economy/

Gilbert, Charlene (2002) Homecoming, The Story of African American Farmers

Gilbert, Wood, Sharpe (2002) Who Owns the Land? Agricultural Land Ownership by Race/Ethnicity

Gordon-Nembhard, Jessica (2014) Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

HAAS Institute, University of California, Berkeley (2016) The US Farm Bill - Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/haasinstitutefarmbillreport_publish_0.pdf

Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese (2020) Black Food Matters. Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice

Harris, Jessica B (2011) High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

Holt-Giménez, Eric (2016) Food First Backgrounder on Racism in the Food System

Holt-Gimenez, Eric (2017) Land Justice: Reimagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States

Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protectionshttps://www.oxfamamerica.org/static/oa3/files/inventory-of-farmworker-issues-and-protections-in-the-usa.pdf

Jordan, Jeffrey et al (2007). Land and Power, Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans, SARE USDA www.sare.org/content/download/50650/665630/file/landandpower.pdf

Laura Herberg, “Detroit People’s Food Co-op Signs Purchase Agreement for North End Location,” WDET[Detroit public radio], April 8, 2021.
https://wdet.org/2021/04/08/Detroit-Peoples-Food-Co-op-Signs-Purchase-Agreement-for-North-End-Location/

Liu, Y. Y. (2012). Good food and good jobs for all: Challenges and opportunities to advance racial and economic equity in the food system. https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/food-justice

Lovell, Robin et al (2020) Can Small Scale Regenerative Agriculture Feed the World? An Annotated Bibliography for Soul Fire Farmhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/12iEW4e1Pkwm2yXWP1wJaTPl4kn-3MZLg/view?usp=sharing

Malik Yakini, “What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement,” Why Hunger, issue 1, 2015.
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Martin, Katie S (2021) Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger

Meter, Ken (2021) Building Community Food Webs

Newkirk, Vann (2019) The Great Land Robbery: The Shameful Story of How 1 Million Black Families Have Been Ripped from their Farms. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/ and video https://youtu.be/ldLiR794DsQ

Open Studio Productions. Arc of Justice: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Beloved Community. (2016) http://openstudioproductions.com/store/arc-of-justice-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-a-beloved-community/

Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice http://www.whiteaccomplices.org/

Penniman, Leah (2018) Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Presser, Lizzie (2019) The Dispossessed: Why are so many black families losing their land? The New Yorker. https://features.propublica.org/black-land-loss/heirs-property-rights-why-black-families-lose-land-south/

Rice, Stion (2019) Convicts are returning for farming and anti-immigrant policies are the reason. https://magazine.umbc.edu/convicts-are-returning-to-farming-anti-immigrant-policies-are-the-reason/

Robin Runyan, “Detroit Food Commons lands state funding,” Urbanize Detroit, October 27, 2021.
https://urbanize.city/detroit/post/detroit-food-commons-lands-state-funding

Steve Dubb, “A Burgeoning Food Justice Movement Rises in Black America,” NPQ, February 24, 2021.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/a-burgeoning-food-justice-movement-rises-in-black-america/

Smithsonian (2015) Mississippi Inferno, Seeds of Revolt http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/mississippi-inferno/1003667

Souza, Rebecca de (2019) Feeding the Other: White Privilege and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries

The Editors and Malik Yakini, “Visions of a New Economy from Detroit: A Conversation with Malik Yakini,” NPQ, July 11, 2018.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/visions-of-a-new-economy-from-detroit-a-conversation-with-malik-yakini/

Terry, Bryant (2021) Black Food

Tracy Loeffelholz DunnJeff Neumann (2013) 40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black Americahttp://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/make-it-right/infographic-40-acres-and-a-mule-would-be-at-least-64-trillion-today

USDA (2012) Agricultural Census, Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Profileshttps://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Race,_Ethnicity_and_Gender_Profiles/cpd99000.pdf

USDA Urban Agriculture Toolkit http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer?navid=kyf-urban-agric

White, Monica (2018) Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

Why Hunger: Agroecology, Putting Food Sovereignty into Actionhttp://whyhunger.org/uploads/fileAssets/6ca854_4622aa.pdf

World Resources Institute (2015) Creating a Sustainable Food Future http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/world-resources-report/world-resources-report-2013-2015-creating-sustainable-food