Food justice and the power of collective action

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Food Activism Today: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice reports on the authors’ research into local food systems in four locales across North Carolina: Watauga and Ashe counties in western North Carolina, Edgecombe and Nash counties in eastern North Carolina, and the cities of Charlotte and Durham. In each, Nonini and Holland focus on activists seeking to improve the equity (justice) and sustainability of those systems in various ways. The authors conclude that, as the site of historical and ongoing racial and class disenfranchisement, economic depression, and a stark urban/rural cultural divide, the state has not seen the successful integration of the local foods movement and small-agricultural advocacy movement that has been more prevalent in other areas of the country.