Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat?
Through community-engaged research, we investigate how political and economic practices have created food apartheid and the ways in which this legacy complicates efforts toward equitable urban agriculture in Salt Lake City (SLC). The study takes place in SLC’s Westside, where an ample number of f...
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Through community-engaged research, we investigate how political and economic practices have created food apartheid and the ways in which this legacy complicates efforts toward equitable urban agriculture in Salt Lake City (SLC). The study takes place in SLC’s Westside, where an ample number of farms and gardens exist, yet food insecurity is a persistent issue. We partner with a small urban CSA farm operating in a USDA-designated food desert in SLC’s Westside to explore the farmers’ own questions about whom their farm is serving and the farms’ potential to contribute to food justice in their community. Specifically, we examine (1) the member distribution of this urban CSA farm and (2) the underlying socio-political, economic, and geographic factors, such as inequitable access to land, housing, urban agriculture, food, and transportation, that contribute to this distribution. GIS analyses, developed with community partners, reveal spatial patterns between contemporary food insecurity and ongoing socioeconomic disparities matching 1930s residential redlining maps. These data resonate with a critical geographic approach to food apartheid and inform a need for deeper and more holistic strategies for food sovereignty through urban agriculture in SLC. While resource constraints may prevent some small farmers from attending to these issues, partnerships in praxis can build capacity and engender opportunities to investigate and disrupt the racial hierarchies enmeshed in federal agricultural policy, municipal zoning, and residential homeownership programs that perpetuate food apartheid.
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| spelling | doaj.art-148703961df2490884194b52807e36822023-09-02T16:24:37ZengLyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012022-02-0111210.5304/jafscd.2022.112.013Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat?Leah Joyner0Blanca Yagüe1Adrienne Cachelin2Jeffrey Rose3University of UtahUniversity of UtahUniversity of UtahUniversity of Utah Through community-engaged research, we investigate how political and economic practices have created food apartheid and the ways in which this legacy complicates efforts toward equitable urban agriculture in Salt Lake City (SLC). The study takes place in SLC’s Westside, where an ample number of farms and gardens exist, yet food insecurity is a persistent issue. We partner with a small urban CSA farm operating in a USDA-designated food desert in SLC’s Westside to explore the farmers’ own questions about whom their farm is serving and the farms’ potential to contribute to food justice in their community. Specifically, we examine (1) the member distribution of this urban CSA farm and (2) the underlying socio-political, economic, and geographic factors, such as inequitable access to land, housing, urban agriculture, food, and transportation, that contribute to this distribution. GIS analyses, developed with community partners, reveal spatial patterns between contemporary food insecurity and ongoing socioeconomic disparities matching 1930s residential redlining maps. These data resonate with a critical geographic approach to food apartheid and inform a need for deeper and more holistic strategies for food sovereignty through urban agriculture in SLC. While resource constraints may prevent some small farmers from attending to these issues, partnerships in praxis can build capacity and engender opportunities to investigate and disrupt the racial hierarchies enmeshed in federal agricultural policy, municipal zoning, and residential homeownership programs that perpetuate food apartheid. https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1056Food ApartheidUrban AgricultureRedliningFood JusticeCritical Geographies of FoodFood Deserts |
| spellingShingle | Leah Joyner Blanca Yagüe Adrienne Cachelin Jeffrey Rose Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat? Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Food Apartheid Urban Agriculture Redlining Food Justice Critical Geographies of Food Food Deserts |
| title | Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat? |
| title_full | Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat? |
| title_short | Farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat? |
| title_sort | farms and gardens everywhere but not a bite to eat |
| topic | Food Apartheid Urban Agriculture Redlining Food Justice Critical Geographies of Food Food Deserts |
| url | https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1056 |
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