Center for Regional Food Systems Racial Equity in the Food System Workgroup

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  Building More Equitable SNAP-Ed Collaborations Among Land-grant Universities and State & Community Partners, Part 3

  Published on January 31, 2023
  Learn how land grant universities and state and community partners can operate SNAP-Ed with equity approaches and structures and innovative models of collaboration in this national webinar.

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  Building More Equitable SNAP-Ed Collaborations Among Land-grant Universities and State & Community Partners, Part 2

  Published on December 1, 2022
  Learn about how land grant universities and state and community partners can operate SNAP-Ed through the lens of collaboration with community food access, nutrition, security and culturally appropriate education.

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  Building More Equitable SNAP-Ed Collaborations Among Land-grant Universities and State & Community Partners, Part 1

  Published on October 10, 2022
  Learn about how land grant universities and state and community partners can build more equitable collaborations around SNAP-Ed in this recording from the Oct. 6, 2022 national webinar.

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  Racial Equity in the MI FTECE Network: Facilitation Debrief

  Published on August 31, 2022
  The Michigan Farm to ECE Network offers the results of the most recent racial equity discussion in this facilitation debrief by Bumblebee Design & Evaluation.

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  An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System, Ninth Edition

  Published on March 14, 2022
  An annotated bibliography of resources and publications on structural racism in the U.S. food system. The ninth edition contains over 500 annotated references.

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  Webinar - Networks and systems that support success for educators, students, and researchers at Native American, Historically Black, and Hispanic-Serving Higher Education Institutions

  Published on November 19, 2021
  Learn how Native American, Historically Black, and Hispanic-Serving higher education Institutions support success for their educators, students, and researchers.

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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?

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  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.

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  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.