Injustice (lack of access healthy food) Ron Finley Injustice (lack of access healthy food) Community (the garden as a magnet that brought people together) Agency (urban gardening-> growing your own food) Aesthetics (creating beauty in the city through gardens)

Chican@/Indigenous Land-ethics Land-based feminism Self-Determination Cultural identity 1. Land-base required for cultural and spiritual survival Eco-feminism Chican@/Indigenous Land-ethics Land-based feminism Self-Determination (Food Sovereignty) 1. Who gets to define what you are doing? 2. Campesinos? (peasants) Gardener or Farmer 3. What is the activity? Recreation or food production/feeding people? Right to the Land 1. Based on labor in a zone of Abandonment 2. Safe space in the city to pray, heal, & play 3. How neighborhoods can be organized for food production & distibution City Politics Access to Land as mitigation for abandonment of the city. Questionable sale of the land Land = $

Food Sovereignty in General 1. The right of every nation and all peoples to define their agricultural and food policies.   2. At a national level, this implies that each country freely determines how to organize its own food production by emphasizing local self-sufficiency, defining the nature of imports and exports, and equitable distribution to prevent hunger or malnutrition. 3. Pressures from international organizations such as WTO to prioritize food production for export and from globalized economy to shift to monoculture industrial agriculture and free trade agreements that displace small-scale farmers. Free Trade Agreements displace people from the land -> NAFTA 4. At a community or individual level, this implies that the community can determine its food production, as well as consumption and distribution. P. 3 5. Dependence on a commercial food system (junk & fast food) vs. Self-determination a. Food Sovereignty at the neighborhood level b. what would a neighborhood-based alternative food-system look like? 6. Function: To resist food systems and policies that continue to control, even monopolize, the distribution of food, undermining our right to food sovereignty. P. 3 7. “The right to land, water, & seeds” (the right to self-determination in creating a local alternative food system)

Food Sovereignty at the South Central Farm Process: political mobilization around land, food, and the environment. p. 2 2. How land is supposed to be used and how community labor is supposed to be organized. (calling for an alternative way for neighborhoods to get their food) * To become producers of food, rather than only consumers of food p. 4 * Working for yourself and not just wage-labor 2. Description of food sovereignty p. 4 * Traditional knowledge -> heirloom seeds * The community utilized its own agricultural methods, * Redefining food systems on a communitarian basis to provide natural food and medicinal plants. * Who determines what you can buy & eat? 3. Chican@s/Latin@s should have a right to healthy food that is consistent with heritage foodways. * Control over types of food available to the community * Not to exploit farmworkers * Food sovereignty is a threat to a commercialized food system and to a network of fast food providers. * How can we achieve radical redistribution of productive resources that are fundamental to real change for an improved quality of life? *Definition F.S. values the rights of peoples to food and food production over trade interests and industrial/commercial concerns

Claims to the land “We believed we had a right to the land” (p. 2)- why? 1. the nature of the work -> farming not gardening (terms matter) 2. the historical context of how they got there 3. 12 years of sweat equity- turning an abandoned lot into a productive farm 4. the lack of available fresh food & the communitarian function of the farm to provide food for the neighborhood (tianguis) 5. for many land-based families- (indigenous), farming was required for cultural and spiritual survival (farming was not a weekend hobby)

Chicana/indigenous Feminist Land Ethics Basic principles, p. 5, 3rd & 4th paragraph What was lost: We were denied the right to grow our traditional foods and teach our children their relationship with and responsibility to the land. p. 6