Resources
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Webinar - Building Trust and Fostering Sustainable Collaboration Across Higher Education Institutions: Examples from Michigan and Texas
Published on July 21, 2021
This webinar features examples of collaboration in higher education that are pluralistic in nature and built on trust and shared values. -
Webinar - Building Relationships Across Higher Education Institutions to Address Racism in the Food System
Published on February 15, 2021
This webinar provides an overview of the history and policy that helped land-grant institutions develop and reimagines a model of collaborative research and outreach across these institutions to advance food system sustainability and resiliency. -
Webinar - Encouraging Collaborations with Indigenous Communities: Experiences of Extension Educators
Published on February 8, 2021
Katie Hartmann of Colorado State University shares her research on inequitable access to Extension resources and land-grant education in the Western U.S. -
An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System, Eighth Edition
Published on January 18, 2021
An annotated bibliography of resources and publications on structural racism in the U.S. food system. Food sovereignty is a theme of many of the new references. -
Policy Memo: Michigan Farmers of Color and the Future of Sustainable Food Systems
Published on September 30, 2020
This policy memo describes how sustainable agriculture with a strong orientation toward racial justice can serve as a medium for building more racial equity and transforming our racialized food system. -
Webinar - Delivering More Than Food: Understanding and Operationalizing Racial Equity in Food Hubs
Published on August 25, 2020
This webinar shares results from a qualitative study led by a racially diverse group of food system practitioners as to how U.S. based food hubs understand and operationalize engagement in racial equity work. -
Delivering More Than Food: Understanding and Operationalizing Racial Equity in Food Hubs
Published on August 20, 2020
Food hubs have a role to play in dismantling racism in our food systems. This report explores how U.S.-based food hubs understand engagement in racial equity work. -
Webinar - Racial Equity in the Food System: Perceptions, Reality, and the Road Ahead
Published on April 16, 2020
In this webinar, members of the Racial Equity in the Food System workgroup share findings from a national survey of REFS webinar registrants and discuss how organizations are reaching their equity goals. -
Webinar - Building Partnerships to Support Food Sovereignty in African American Communities
Published on December 5, 2019
Learn about how and why African American communities are working together to enhance their food sovereignty. -
Webinar - Food Sovereignty and the Role of Extension: Partnerships that Work
Published on September 19, 2019
Learn how partnerships between First Nations communities and Extension can advance food sovereignty. -
Webinar - Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics
Published on July 22, 2019
Learn how metrics can help you make progress towards racial equity in food systems and beyond. -
Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics
Published on May 6, 2019
This tool contains 86 metrics to help hold ourselves accountable for progress towards a more equitable food system. -
Webinar - Land-Grant Institutions and Food Systems: Acknowledging historical disparities and exploring present-day equity initiatives
Published on April 23, 2019
What are organizations and administrators working with land-grant institutions doing to address inequities present since the inception of these institutions? -
External Resources Recommended by the Racial Equity in the Food System Workgroup
Published on January 16, 2019
Check out these resources to grow your knowledge of racial equity in the food system. -
Webinar - Building Racial Equity Within Cooperative Extension: Tools, Takeaways, and National Strategies
Published on December 17, 2018
A webinar highlighting tools, strategies, and takeaways to help professionals understand racial equity issues within their own organizations and include racial equity into programs they conduct within communities. -
Webinar - Racial Equity in Food Systems Work: Beginning the Journey
Published on May 2, 2018
A webinar intended to inspire Extension educators who want to make racial equity a more intentional part of their work – and an introduction to resources and tools to help do so.
