SUNDAY ‘NOIRE: Food Injustice Is Real, And It’s Worse Around The Holidays

How Can Food Injustice Be Fought?

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Once you understand the causes of food injustice, it’s easy to see that eliminating it will be anything but simple. It will need to be a multi-pronged approach and the engagement of multiple government sectors and organizations is essential.

Here are some ways experts recommend fighting food injustice:

• Rezoning unused lots for urban gardening. In many cities, empty lots that have been deemed unusable for building could be used as plots of land for urban farming initiatives.
• Battling food inflation. The reasons behind it are varied, including higher cost of fuel and fertilizer in a resource-scarcity economy.
• Food redistribution. According to RTS, roughly 30 percent of food from grocery stores winds up being thrown out instead of sold. But there are some non-profits, like Let’s Be Whole, who are dedicated to salvaging and redistributing it to communities in need.
• Improved transportation access. If and when zoning or economical limitations prevent healthy stores from opening up in under-served communities, affordable transportation options to neighborhoods with healthy stores is imperative.