COVID-19 – Vulnerable Populations and Food Access

Please join Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Food Studies at Syracuse University, and my May 21st PRN guest, for a webinar with the Food Justice and Human Rights Foundation for Community Food Security.

The coronavirus pandemic has uncovered failings in our approach to emergency food programs such as subsidized school feeding. It has also revealed an alarming lack of support for underpaid, under-protected, and under-acknowledged food system workers, who are now labeled essential in the face of a crisis. A human rights-based approach to food justice recognizes both equality and compensation for social marginalization and discrimination. By placing food access within a legal framework, governments can be held accountable for developing critical policies and processes focused on the rights, needs, and political participation of vulnerable populations.

Please register in advance for this ZOOM meeting:

https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcu2rpz0iH9FdHNKq-E4tZ7px7V1kbXON