Mission
Generate and compile content that explores food inequities and food justice movements throughout Colorado.
Centering Colorado
Like many places, food inequities in Colorado are complex and multifaceted. They encompass concerns such as corporate concentration of food and agriculture companies, white male dominance in agriculture and the discrimination against women farmers and farmers of color, and the exploitation of food chain workers.
There are also disparate health impacts of industrial food production, food apartheid and the displacement of cultural foods, and the coopting and marginalization of different ethnoracial groups' cultural foods.
The food justice movements that tackle these concerns are therefore diverse, reflecting different places of struggle, scales of action, and groups involved.
In response, we offer a platform to explore food justice in Colorado.
The Food Justice Kit was revised in 2024 and continues to evolve.
Check it out here: https://col.st/USdZo
The previous version of the kit is linked in the headings below. Thanks for your patience as we port this content to a new site.
Discover Food Justice topics including
- Enroll in courses that incorporate Food Justice
- Get involved with Food Justice now
The purpose of this toolkit it to encourage and facilitate the education of students and the community more broadly on issues of food justice and provide opportunities to get involved in the food justice movement. We hope to provide connections between students and food-related resources on campus and locally. This is grounded in student knowledge and understanding in order to engage with the student body at CSU.
With this Toolkit, students will be able to see the need for justice in food access and food-work as well as to recognize and combat injustices concerning food workers and agriculture workers as social justice issues.
While toolkits exist to inform readers on what food justice is, there are not as many place-based, local, and specific toolkits that focus on a certain population. That is why we wanted to create something that was by students, for students, and based in the Northern Colorado food system. Additionally, we wanted to create a living document that was accessible and which assists those on campus in order to educate and provide problem-solving opportunities for issues surrounding food justice and environmental sustainability.
In collaboration with the Center for Science Communication, creative projects from students in Jamie Folsom’s JTC319 class in the Spring of 2022 have been included.
JTC319 Class, with the Center for Environmental Justice team that worked on putting this toolkit together.