Heritage Radio Network’s Nora Peachin is traveling the world for one year in search of communities organizing to make our food systems more equitable, and she’s bringing you along with her. In the first episode of the series, Nora visits Italy to learn about the right to food and food charity.
Heritage Radio Network’s Nora Peachin is traveling the world for one year in search of communities organizing to make our food systems more equitable, and she’s bringing you along with her. In the first episode of the series, Nora visits Italy to learn about the right to food and food charity.
Further Reading:
See the complete United Nations Right to Food Team’s voluntary guidelines here.
To learn more about Community Food Centers Canada, visit their website or check out The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, a book by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis, his wife.
Here you can read about the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, Milan’s Food Policy office, and Caritas Italiana.
Other texts that have greatly informed this episode include Janet Poppendieck’s Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, Graham Riches and Tiina Silvasti’s First World Hunger Revisited: Food Charity or the Right to Food, Andrew Fisher’s Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups, and Molly Anderson’s research on food justice and the right to food.
Nora’s research is funded through a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. The Watson Foundation offers one-year independent research fellowships for graduating college seniors.
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