U.S. #breastfeeding leadership: want to close racial disparity in BF rates? Look in the mirror. http://t.co/BuudzlOvNK @iamKSealsAllers

Community Economic Development

People's Community Market announces Direct Public Offering Video Posted November 29, 2012 People’s Community Market has announced that it will be offering California residents the opportunity to directly invest in the enterprise as part of its effort to raise capital to create a full-service grocery store in West Oakland.	Fund Progressive Food Programs in Cities that Need Them By Jenga Mwendo Posted October 31, 2012 New Orleans needs government support to bring quality food retail businesses to the Lower 9th Ward.	Nurture Grassroots Food Policy Councils By Malik Yakini Posted October 30, 2012 Governments have to be willing to engage with community-driven efforts to solve problems of racial inequity in our food system.	Support Resilient Solutions to Community Food Needs By Brahm Ahmadi Posted October 29, 2012 For a more just and healthy food system, government needs to ensure a balance and parity between government support for large corporations and for small, local businesses.
Land and Power in Detroit By Malik Yakini Posted October 15, 2012 As we struggle to foster food security, food justice and food sovereignty, the question of land, who “owns” it, who controls it and who benefits from it, must be in the forefront of our discussions.	Video: Jenga Mwendo on Be Black and Green Video By Malik Yakini Posted October 11, 2012 Jenga Mwendo of the Backyard Gardeners Network explains how gardening can be a tool for community development in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.	Building Gardens, Rebuilding Community By Andrea King Collier Posted October 10, 2012 Jenga Mwendo is building gardens in the Lower Ninth's food deserts	Black Men in the Food System: Roles and Opportunities, Rural to Urban Video Posted July 24, 2012 Malik Yakini, Haile Johnston and Kelvin Graddick discuss the roles and opportunities for Black men in the food system both through a rural and urban lens.
Planting new roots in the heartland By Cheryl Danley Posted May 30, 2012 Burmese refugees have grown as a community in Battle Creek, Michigan and are planting much more than new family roots.	Jungleland? New Orleans Community Activist Rejects NY Times Depiction of Ninth Ward By Jenga Mwendo Posted May 8, 2012 The New York Times Magazine recently ran a story on my home, the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a place one of the most powerful newspapers in the world insensitively dubbed a “Jungleland.”	Green Carts pushing neighborhood produce By Jane Black Posted April 24, 2012 New York's Green Cart program is fast becoming a model for making healthful food more accessible and affordable.	The New Black Farmer By Haile Johnston Posted April 13, 2012

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Cultivating Leadership and Equity in the Food Movement

April 2013

The IATP Food and Community Fellows Program is coming to an end, but it's springtime for our work growing equity in the food system and cultivating diverse leadership in the movement.

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Food Workers Community Economic Development Children's Health and Well-being Food Policy Food and Culture Growing Food Health Equity Movement Building

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