On Food Justice

Buffalo Food Equity Network, “Buffalo Food Justice Advocates and Partners Call For End to White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness,” 17 May 2022, Food for the Spirit.
Ben Tsujimoto, “’FUBU of produce’: African Heritage Food Co-op needs resources to fill food void in Fruit Belt,” 31 May 2022, The Buffalo News.
Consider This, “Buffalo Shooting Victims Are Likely Targets Of Racist ‘Replacement’ Violence,” 16 May 2022, National Public Radio.
NPR Consider This story (written and audio) includes local food activist, Della Miller, who helped bring the Tops to the East side 20 years ago, and Dr. Raja who runs the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo.
Jessica L. Gilbert and Rebekah A. Williams, “Pathways to reparations: land and healing through food justice,” Human Geography 13 (September 2020).
Samina Raja, Changxing Ma, Pavan Yadav, “Beyond food deserts: measuring and mapping racial disparities in neighborhood food environments,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 27 (January 2008).
Samina Raja, Diane Picard, Solhyon Baek, and Cristina Delgado, “Rustbelt Radicalism: A Decade of Food Systems Planning in Buffalo, New York,” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (September 2014)
Maryam Khojasteh and Samina Raja, “Agents of change: How immigrant-run ethnic food retailers improve food environments,” Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 12 (April 2016).
Jennifer Whittaker, Jill K. Clark, Sarah SanGiovannni, and Samina Raja,“Planning for Food Systems: Community-University Partnerships for Food-Systems Transformation,” Metropolitan Universities 28 (Winter 2017).
Jeremy Stahl, “What We Get Wrong About Food Insecurity in Places Like Buffalo’s East Side,” 19 May 2022, Slate.