Food Justice

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines major structural issues in the dominant food system, andmovements for food justice, food sovereignty and seed sovereignty organized by foodproducers, workers, and consumers that have arisen to assert access to healthy food as ahuman right. Through exploring how we are defining ‘healthy food’, and the spaces andcommunities which have historically had more constrained access to this food and itsmeans of production, this class will work to familiarize students with food justiceactivism in the Bay Area and beyond.