The short, easy-to-read resource helps organisers, campaigners and advocates in the sustainable food and farming sector to centre their work in justice and equity. It highlights that inequitable systems must be dismantled to make meaningful progress, whilst providing practical actions and tools to do so.
It recognises that transformative change in the food system cannot happen by continuing with the status quo, and offers space to reflect on how to meaningful shape practice. The resource introduces terms such as decolonality in an inclusive and informative way - aiming to break down barriers associated with such language, whilst demonstrating why a core knowledge in this area is central to making progress.
The actions include how to organise and host events that centre justice and decolonality, using collaborative processes and tools to engage with communities, practitioners and stakeholders, and how to centre accountability and connection in your work. The resources contains several links to longer research and reading, for those that want to dive in deeper.
It includes case studies of inspirational projects within the sustainable food and farming movement to spotlight how decolonality work can, and has been, done. At the end there is a helpful checklist that organisers can use when planning and doing their work.
By working collaboratively to promote social justice in the work we do as a movement, organisations and individuals will be empowered and skilled to help build a more equitable food system for all.
Download the resource from the Eating Better website.
