Right to Food & Beyond Resources
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Dig In & Explore
Below is a list of resources we have found informative, useful, and inspiring throughout the evolution of our organization. This list is by no means comprehensive. We add as we go and if you have something you think should be on the list, let us know! This is a dense offering, so please take time to go through each offer and digest.
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Right to Food Resources
Right to Food Overview & Timeline
Wikipedia has done a great job laying out the Right to Food, along with a comprehensive timeline and history. This is a great place to start as this page covers all the basics, as well as links to an incredible amount of useful information.
The Power of Words
An exploration on the Power of Words and a tour of Slate Valley Cares' Right to Food Center infrastructure.
United Nations Human Rights
The Right to Adequate Food: The right to food is an inclusive right. It is not simply a right to a minimum ration of calories, proteins and other specific nutrients. It is a right to all nutritional elements that a person needs to live a healthy and active life, and to the means to access them.
UN Human Rights
The four key elements of the right to food are: Availability, Accessibility, Adequacy, and Sustainability. Learn more about the key aspects, common misconceptions, implications for individuals and groups, and the obligations of States with respect to the right to food in the key documents below.
Co-Director of the Global Center of Environmental Legal Studies & Haub Distiguished Professor of International Law
Keynote Speech at 2016 Hunger Action Conference
Human rights activist, Smita Narula's keynote address at the Vermont Foodbank's annual Hunger Action Conference on the Right to Food
National Right to Food Community of Practice
The National Right to Food Community of Practice formed in early 2021 to weave together the various streams of right to food work across the U.S., providing dedicated technical support and capacity building for the development of informed and coordinated food and farm policy and advocacy. Rooted in shared learning, our growing community includes advocates, legal experts, community organizers, food and farm organizations, small scale food producers and those with lived experience of hunger.
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies
Molly Anderson directs the Academic Program in Food Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont and teaches about hunger and food security, fixing food systems, and sustainability.
Resources for Personal and Cultural Change
Looby Macnamara
Looby Macnamara is a permaculture teacher, designer and writer. Permaculture came into her life in 1999 and awakened in her a creative life force. She has found it to be full of inspiration, magic and common sense. Permaculture has allowed her to meander on her own path supported by like-minded people, a sense of purpose and a belief that together we are bringing about positive change in the world.
Atomic Habits
A supremely practical and useful book. James Clear distils the most fundamental information about habit formation, so you can accomplish more by focusing on less.
Adam Brock
Regenerate Change consultant Adam Brock dives head-first into this question in his book Change Here Now. Drawing from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over, Change Here Now presents 82 proven solutions for building resilient and empowered communities. The book offers answers for permaculturalists, organizers, activists, nonprofit directors, social entrepreneurs – and anyone else looking for meaning in a chaotic world.