Mialno part-time Lecturer Kristin Reynolds and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Nevin Cohen recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Huffington Post entitled A Kale of Two Cities: Cultivating Social Justice. In the article, Reynolds and Cohen make the argument that growing food in an urban city is more powerful as a means to social justice, rather than simply providing healthy, local food options. From the article:
“Growing more food in the city is not the solution to food access, nor is it the one and only way to address injustice in the food system. But the act of cultivating crops, along with the community activities that take place within these spaces, can make a difference.”
Reynolds and Cohen also recently published Urban Agriculture Policy Making in New York’s “New Political Spaces”: Strategizing for a Participatory and Representative System in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Reynolds and Cohen are authors of the book Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City, forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. They presented their findings from the book in February, the footage of which can be viewed here.
