FOOD SECURITY, JUSTICE &
SOVEREIGNTY
Wyoming Resources
Below are some of our partner agencies in Wyoming working in food security, justice, and sovereignty.
A Wyoming-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening local food systems by connecting stakeholders and amplifying their voices to ensure Wyoming producers, consumers, and environments thrive.
An initiative of Wyoming's First Lady, Jennie Gordon, the Wyoming Hunger Initiative works to prevent food insecurity by increasing awareness and support for the work of local anti-hunger organizations statewide through innovative programs that connect like-minded organizations as well as funding support for local solutions.
Wyoming Table connects interested regional, national, and international buyers with our local producers. It’s where customers in and out of Wyoming can access the most delicious food and drinks from you, our local ranchers, farmers, brewers, distillers, and more.
Offering online ordering and delivery of locally grown Wyoming foods by connecting customers to Wyoming farmers and ranchers.
National Resources
Interested in learning more about food justice and food sovereignty? Below you will find some resources that have been influential for us as well in building a better food system. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about these resources or our own approach to food justice and food sovereignty!
Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative (GFJI)
An initiative aimed at dismantling racism and empowering low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture. Based in Milwaukee, WI.
How to Eat Ethically and Sustainably on a Budget
Freelance writer Penny Williams offers a bounty of information to guide you in a quest to eat and buy food that will help rather than hurt the environment; visit her blog via the above link.
"Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities," published as a partnership between the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's agencies of Rural Development and the Agricultural Marketing Service focuses on regional food systems as a means for enhancing economic opportunity.
Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.
"We have pretended that the problem is hunger and not poverty. We’ve pretended that the solution to hunger is charity, not ensuring the right to food or increasing the political power of the poor." -Andy Fisher, Author of Big Hunger.
Oregon Tilth makes our food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable and requires us to find practical ways to tackle big challenges. We advance this mission to balance the needs of people and planet through focus on core areas of certification, conservation, social equity, policy, and the marketplace.
A Maine-based 501(c)3 nonprofit that is helping public food gardens to start and thrive by offering them grants, access to crowdfunding and technical assistance with garden planning.
The Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Wallace Center supports entrepreneurs and communities as they build a new, 21st-century food system that is healthier for people, the environment, and the economy.
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