Food Access to Food Sovereignty Workbook: A Spectrum of Food Systems Change
From the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems - A Spectrum of Food Systems Change (2025) by Shiloh Maples offers a model that is expansive and inclusive of all food systems change and emphasizes the interconnectedness of food movements. This workbook provides tools for individuals and groups to contextualize their work in relation to others, which in turn increases understanding of their own efforts and fosters collaborations to improve food systems.
An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System, Eleventh Edition
Published annually by the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems - the annotated bibliography offers a foundation for learning and communicating about structural racism in the U.S. food system. The eleventh edition includes a total of 728 references to peer-reviewed articles, reports, books, videos, and more—that explore structural racism both across the national food system and in specific food sectors and geographies. Updates to the 11th edition include 90 new publication citations and 2 new video resources. Food sovereignty is a theme of many of the new references.
This annotated format is useful for food systems practitioners, policymakers, researchers, educators, scholars, and students. Most references were crowd-sourced – collected via a nationwide request sent through food systems networks.
For more information, contact Rich Pirog, Center for Regional Food Systems, rspirog@msu.edu.
This work was supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
2020 Western U.P. Farmers Market Capacity & Needs Assessment
The Michigan Farmers Market Association (MIFMA) did an assessment of six area farmers markets in the Western Upper Peninsula to learn more about the operations of each of the markets in 2020. This report provides a brief profile of each responding market, highlights key survey findings, and conveys recommendations for future programming and market support in the region based on the assessment results.
Methodology: Applying a Racial Equity Lens to Anti-Hunger Policies
Racial inequity is a root cause of hunger
ENDING HUNGER in a lasting, sustainable way requires identifying and resolving its root causes. While hunger and poverty rates have declined nationwide, people of color consistently have far higher rates of hunger and poverty than whites. This is due, in large part, to the impacts of structural racism. Applying a racial equity lens—a concept and practice that focuses on achieving equality for people of color—can help respond to structural racism and its consequences. This will not only reduce hunger and poverty among communities of color, but also move the United States closer to its national goal of ending hunger by 2030. A new report from Bread for the World Institute—“Applying Racial Equity to U.S. Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs"—provides first-ever analysis to identify ways key nutrition programs can apply racial equity principles so that people of color are no longer disproportionately food insecure and no longer disproportionately at risk of food insecurity. The report also provides a detailed glossary of terms related to racial equity, historical accounts of structural racism, and spotlights of how various community members are already applying this lens effectively.