Food Security and Social Justice Network - FSSJN

04/01/2019

Don't miss this great talk today!

Don't miss Carlton Turner TODAY! Join us at Dunbar Pavilion at 6:00pm to hear him talk about Sipp Culture (Mississippi Center for Cultural Production). https://crfs.arizona.edu/events/reimagining-community-cultural-identity

07/12/2018

The University of Arizona is offering two new undergraduate degrees related to food: a Bachelor of Arts in Food Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Systems. Each degree will provide distinctive learning outcomes for students with different areas of interest in food. Food studies....

06/14/2018

https://sbs.arizona.edu/news/university-arizona-offers-two-new-food-programs

05/23/2018

Job posting at U of Arizona: https://uacareers.com/postings/29268

The mission of the Department of Nutritional Sciences (NSC), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona, is to lead in providing cutting-edge Research, outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Instructional Programs, and Cooperative Extension activities that advance the disc...

04/18/2018

04/10/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/sunday/germs-microbes-processed-foods.html

Human beings aren’t designed to eat processed foods like these.

01/26/2018

This excerpt from Charles Mann's new book provides a great overview of the history of agricultural development and the future of food.

Humanity has 30 years to find out.

11/14/2017

Thanks to everyone who showed up today to our Food Waste in the Borderlands discussion today. The panelists were fantastic and the crowd and tamales as well!

11/11/2016

Check out the latest installment of Arizona Spotlights' Feeding Our Future miniseries and listen to great interviews with leaders from Flowers and Bullets and Tierra y Libertad.

Home-grown efforts to improve Tucson’s struggling neighborhoods start with vegetable gardens.

10/26/2016

10/26/2016

The lunchtime panel on April 20th brought community members together over tamales to learn about and discuss the challenges facing workers in the food chain and avenues towards building a more just food system for all.

Our lunchtime Food Labor Panel brought community members together over tamales to learn about and discuss the challenges facing workers in the food chain and avenues toward building a more just food system for all. We shot video of our first two presenters, Abby Rosen and Jill Guernsey de Zapien! Check it out!