A little about ourselves
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This project began as a research report from a group of six working professional students from the Civic Leadership Program at De Anza College. Their project mission is to overcome systemic economic barriers through collective information sharing, active community participation, and healthy food habits. The group participants include:
Farah Gowani, Tutor, Club Z Tutoring Wilma Jakobsen, Rector, St. Jude's Episcopal Church Stacey Lee, Field Interviewer, Ewald and Wasserman Research Consultants Vivian Luong, Program Coordinator, Asian Americans for Community Involvement Yesenia Ramos, Graduate Student in Mexican American Studies, San Jose State University Tony Santa Ana, Intercultural Studies Professor, De Anza College |
Terms of reference
Food Deserts:
“Parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers. This has become a big problem because while food deserts are often short on whole food providers, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, instead, they are heavy on local quickie marts that provide a wealth of processed, sugar, and fat laden foods that are known contributors to our nation’s obesity epidemic” [Source]
Food Justice:
“Food Justice is the right of communities everywhere to produce, distribute, access, and eat good food regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, religion, or community. Good food is healthful, local, sustainable, culturally appropriate, humane, and produced for the sustenance of people and the planet.” [Source]
Food Security:
“Food Security means that all people at all times have physical & economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appropriate foods, which are produced in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner, and that people are able to make informed decisions about their food choices.” [Source]
Food Deserts:
“Parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers. This has become a big problem because while food deserts are often short on whole food providers, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, instead, they are heavy on local quickie marts that provide a wealth of processed, sugar, and fat laden foods that are known contributors to our nation’s obesity epidemic” [Source]
Food Justice:
“Food Justice is the right of communities everywhere to produce, distribute, access, and eat good food regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, religion, or community. Good food is healthful, local, sustainable, culturally appropriate, humane, and produced for the sustenance of people and the planet.” [Source]
Food Security:
“Food Security means that all people at all times have physical & economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appropriate foods, which are produced in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner, and that people are able to make informed decisions about their food choices.” [Source]