African American Land Dispossession Historical Time Line
Agricultural Land Retention Priorities in the African Diaspora
1. Produce healthy, toxin-free food locally.
2. Employ holistic agricultural practices which enrich the soil and the Earth.
3. Preserve local biodiversity.
4. Determine agricultural land availability.
5. Work through land retention challenges.
6. Innovate strategies, models, and work-arounds.
American Heirs Property Challenges
Evolution of Kenyan Coastal Land Ownership
Regenerative Agricultural Land Resilience Models &
Farming Methods & Movements
If not we will be divided in to uncountable groups each manipulated by vested foreign and domestic interests to economically rob us from our ability of creative thinking and innovation.
Development projects, as stated above, needs money for each of them to execute. And the money takes the route of foreign direct investment (FDI). Investment needs interest. Usually the investment in infrastructure projects will be inflated ten times higher to earn not only more interest but to make local governments not to be able to pay. When unable to pay, local governments open up natural resources to foreigners for ruthless exploitation. It is a saga that documents one resourceful country after another resourceful country. Dams interrupt river flow thus the cultural bondage of all the tirthas along the river. Can you imagine how to perform aarti when the rivers are dry? That really doesn’t surprise me; people are more interested in forcing themselves upon Nature as opposed to being in tune with it. Nothing in Uttarakhand is endangered or unfriendly to wildlife except under the British rulers.
As Netaji Subhash Chnadra Bose said “any form of oppression should be fought back” it is true in the era of intellectual and scientific arenas.
Although we declare “Satyameva Jayate” as an emblem of the state. It is mentioned on most of documents of our government. The reality is far from the truth.
If not we will be divided in to uncountable groups each manipulated by vested foreign and domestic interests to economically rob us from our ability of creative thinking and innovation.
Development projects, as stated above, needs money for each of them to execute. And the money takes the route of foreign direct investment (FDI). Investment needs interest. Usually the investment in infrastructure projects will be inflated ten times higher to earn not only more interest but to make local governments not to be able to pay. When unable to pay, local governments open up natural resources to foreigners for ruthless exploitation. It is a saga that documents one resourceful country after another resourceful country. Dams interrupt river flow thus the cultural bondage of all the tirthas along the river. Can you imagine how to perform aarti when the rivers are dry? That really doesn’t surprise me; people are more interested in forcing themselves upon Nature as opposed to being in tune with it. Nothing in Uttarakhand is endangered or unfriendly to wildlife except under the British rulers.
As Netaji Subhash Chnadra Bose said “any form of oppression should be fought back” it is true in the era of intellectual and scientific arenas.
Although we declare “Satyameva Jayate” as an emblem of the state. It is mentioned on most of documents of our government. The reality is far from the truth.
Talk on the issue of land grabbing for biofuel production in Africa and whether or not it can be sustainable.
Organised by the University of Sheffield African Affairs Network.
Speakers:
Lionel Cliffe
Emeritus Professor – University of Leeds
Founding editor of the Review of African Political Economy.
'Distinguished Africanist Award' from UK African Studies Association 2002
Dr Elisa Greco,
Research Associate , Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester
The Caribbean includes 25 countries and dependent territories, located on Caribbean Sea
- Includes islands, plus coastal Belize and the Guianas
- Share similarities with east coastal regions of Central America
This presentation was delivered in the Indigenous Liberation Studies class by Lynette Smith. The presentation examined the history of the Native American First Nations. It discusses how the “Red Power” movement was born as a result of hundreds of tribal groups across the globe protested colonial domination.
This presentation was delivered by year three Te Whiuwhiu o te hau Maaori Counselling Student Michael Frew.
He plays two characters in the video.
> The first is the narrator of the Idle No More Movement wearing no jacket.
> The Second is a coloniser- wearing a jacket
Talk on the issue of land grabbing for biofuel production in Africa and whether or not it can be sustainable.
Organised by the University of Sheffield African Affairs Network.
Speakers:
Lionel Cliffe
Emeritus Professor – University of Leeds
Founding editor of the Review of African Political Economy.
'Distinguished Africanist Award' from UK African Studies Association 2002
Dr Elisa Greco,
Research Associate , Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester
The Caribbean includes 25 countries and dependent territories, located on Caribbean Sea
- Includes islands, plus coastal Belize and the Guianas
- Share similarities with east coastal regions of Central America
This presentation was delivered in the Indigenous Liberation Studies class by Lynette Smith. The presentation examined the history of the Native American First Nations. It discusses how the “Red Power” movement was born as a result of hundreds of tribal groups across the globe protested colonial domination.
This presentation was delivered by year three Te Whiuwhiu o te hau Maaori Counselling Student Michael Frew.
He plays two characters in the video.
> The first is the narrator of the Idle No More Movement wearing no jacket.
> The Second is a coloniser- wearing a jacket
The Promise and Feasibility of Realizing Community Land Rights in KenyaKevin M. Doyle
Presentation given by Kevin M. Doyle at a Seminar at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, July 30, 2013
A proposal to allow the construction of compact farm villages on BC farmland, to enable young people to farm, while restoring community and harmony with nature.
In contrast to the highly mechanistic food production, distribution, and consumption model applied in the industrialized food system, Indigenous food systems are described in ecological rather than neoclassical economic terms.
An Indigenous food is one that has been primarily cultivated, taken care of, harvested, prepared, preserved, shared, or traded within the boundaries of the respective territories based on values of interdependency, respect, reciprocity, and ecological sensibility.
"Food sovereignty", is a term coined by members of La Via Campesina (International coalition of Peasant organizations representing 148 organizations from 69 countries) in 1996.
Asserts that the people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution, rather than the corporations and market institutions that have come to dominate the global food system.
Presentación de Patrick Katelo (Kenya) - Seminario Internacional Pueblos Indí...FAO
Presentación de Patrick Katelo (Kenya) en el marco del Seminario Internacional de Expertos sobre 'Diversidad Cultural, Sistemas Alimentarios y Estrategias Tradicionales de Vida' realizado del 4 al 6 de noviembre de 2014 en Cusco Perú.
The Quaker Pathways Forward - Rekindling the Fire of Fox Community of Practice presents, Dynamic Governance: Overview for Evolutionary Culture-building and 21st Century Quaker Relevance
The Quaker Pathways Forward - Rekindling the Fire of Fox Community of Practice presents, Dynamic Governance: Decision Making for Evolutionary Culture-building and 21st Century Quaker Relevance
The world is in a state of existential crisis which is causing tremendous suffering as climate change and resource depletion accelerate. After six years of laying the groundwork through the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH), a six-state consortium of environmentalists, in 2016 the Convener of the Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) United Nations Working Group established and now convenes an African Diaspora Earthcare Coalition of colleagues from throughout the Diaspora.
Coalition partners work together under the aegis of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent to encourage people's local ownership, and full use of the means of food production. The African Diaspora Coalition seeks to ensure that marginalized people who are dependent on industrial agriculture’s distribution systems create alternatives for themselves, produce food and herbal medicines locally, and have access to clean water as climate change dials up. The Coalition works to maximize the number of people who comprise a robust remnant that successfully navigates through the eye of the climate change needle.
Partnerships and Spiritual Grounding: Coalition work proceeds from the premise that activism that can significantly shift unprecedented, complex 21st century challenges must necessarily be grounded in experiential awareness of the non-dual nature of reality. That is, a “lived” understanding that the division, separation, and fragmentation that we see manifest in the world is only apparent. The false sense of separation is so pervasively held as a steady point of focus in the collective unconscious that it underlies and fuels aberrant social ills which cause suffering.
A fellowship of spiritual partners including Quaker, Buddhist, Jewish, Vedanta, and Unitarian Universalist practitioners has come together to demonstrate how cultivating awareness of non-duality can translate into, “awakened activism” and the practical thriving of communities. The DNA of these traditions is centered in the knowledge that the field of universal intelligence, rather than the human intellect, is the source of authentic clarity from which truly evolutionary social activism proceeds.
Fragmented consciousness has been methodically and deliberately imprinted on the peoples of the African Diaspora for four hundred years to facilitate their exploitation for economic gain. Systemic reunification and healing is needed. Coalition spiritual partners therefore offer a backdrop of clearness and form a spacious outer circle of support around this work taking place within the African Diaspora.
UNDERSTANDING WHAT GREEN WASHING IS!.pdfJulietMogola
Many companies today use green washing to lure the public into thinking they are conserving the environment but in real sense they are doing more harm. There have been such several cases from very big companies here in Kenya and also globally. This ranges from various sectors from manufacturing and goes to consumer products. Educating people on greenwashing will enable people to make better choices based on their analysis and not on what they see on marketing sites.
Characterization and the Kinetics of drying at the drying oven and with micro...Open Access Research Paper
The objective of this work is to contribute to valorization de Nephelium lappaceum by the characterization of kinetics of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum. The seeds were dehydrated until a constant mass respectively in a drying oven and a microwawe oven. The temperatures and the powers of drying are respectively: 50, 60 and 70°C and 140, 280 and 420 W. The results show that the curves of drying of seeds of Nephelium lappaceum do not present a phase of constant kinetics. The coefficients of diffusion vary between 2.09.10-8 to 2.98. 10-8m-2/s in the interval of 50°C at 70°C and between 4.83×10-07 at 9.04×10-07 m-8/s for the powers going of 140 W with 420 W the relation between Arrhenius and a value of energy of activation of 16.49 kJ. mol-1 expressed the effect of the temperature on effective diffusivity.
Natural farming @ Dr. Siddhartha S. Jena.pptxsidjena70
A brief about organic farming/ Natural farming/ Zero budget natural farming/ Subash Palekar Natural farming which keeps us and environment safe and healthy. Next gen Agricultural practices of chemical free farming.
Willie Nelson Net Worth: A Journey Through Music, Movies, and Business Venturesgreendigital
Willie Nelson is a name that resonates within the world of music and entertainment. Known for his unique voice, and masterful guitar skills. and an extraordinary career spanning several decades. Nelson has become a legend in the country music scene. But, his influence extends far beyond the realm of music. with ventures in acting, writing, activism, and business. This comprehensive article delves into Willie Nelson net worth. exploring the various facets of his career that have contributed to his large fortune.
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Introduction
Willie Nelson net worth is a testament to his enduring influence and success in many fields. Born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson's journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of the most iconic figures in American music is nothing short of inspirational. His net worth, which estimated to be around $25 million as of 2024. reflects a career that is as diverse as it is prolific.
Early Life and Musical Beginnings
Humble Origins
Willie Hugh Nelson was born during the Great Depression. a time of significant economic hardship in the United States. Raised by his grandparents. Nelson found solace and inspiration in music from an early age. His grandmother taught him to play the guitar. setting the stage for what would become an illustrious career.
First Steps in Music
Nelson's initial foray into the music industry was fraught with challenges. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue his dreams, but success did not come . Working as a songwriter, Nelson penned hits for other artists. which helped him gain a foothold in the competitive music scene. His songwriting skills contributed to his early earnings. laying the foundation for his net worth.
Rise to Stardom
Breakthrough Albums
The 1970s marked a turning point in Willie Nelson's career. His albums "Shotgun Willie" (1973), "Red Headed Stranger" (1975). and "Stardust" (1978) received critical acclaim and commercial success. These albums not only solidified his position in the country music genre. but also introduced his music to a broader audience. The success of these albums played a crucial role in boosting Willie Nelson net worth.
Iconic Songs
Willie Nelson net worth is also attributed to his extensive catalog of hit songs. Tracks like "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "On the Road Again," and "Always on My Mind" have become timeless classics. These songs have not only earned Nelson large royalties but have also ensured his continued relevance in the music industry.
Acting and Film Career
Hollywood Ventures
In addition to his music career, Willie Nelson has also made a mark in Hollywood. His distinctive personality and on-screen presence have landed him roles in several films and television shows. Notable appearances include roles in "The Electric Horseman" (1979), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), and "Barbarosa" (1982). These acting gigs have added a significant amount to Willie Nelson net worth.
Television Appearances
Nelson's char
WRI’s brand new “Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices” gives food service operators the very latest strategies for creating dining environments that empower consumers to choose sustainable, plant-rich dishes. This research builds off our first guide for food service, now with industry experience and insights from nearly 350 academic trials.
Artificial Reefs by Kuddle Life Foundation - May 2024punit537210
Situated in Pondicherry, India, Kuddle Life Foundation is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the living standards of coastal communities and simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on the protection of marine ecosystems.
One of the key areas we work in is Artificial Reefs. This presentation captures our journey so far and our learnings. We hope you get as excited about marine conservation and artificial reefs as we are.
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QEW African Diaspora Earthcare Coalition, UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF): Agricultural Land Retention
1.
2. Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW)
African Diaspora Earthcare Coalition
• ABI Organic Agriculture
• Black Belt Justice Center
• Center for Heirs Property
Preservation
• Historically Black Colleges and
Universities Environmental Justice
Consortium
• Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference
Unitarian Universalist Association
6. Relocalization of Food Production in
The African Diaspora – Healing and Organizing
• Food Sovereignty: Old-new
economic models without strings.
• 21st Century evolutionary
culture-building and governance.
• Healing reconnection of a vast
network of local Diaspora nodes
where people of African descent
are relocalizing food production.
─Globally Interconnected, Local
Environmental Resilience-building.
7. Agricultural Land Retention Priorities
in the African Diaspora
• Produce healthy, toxin-free food
locally.
• Employ holistic agricultural
practices which enrich the soil
and the Earth.
• Preserve local biodiversity.
• Determine agricultural land
availability.
• Work through land retention
challenges.
• Innovate strategies, models, and
work-arounds.
8. • 1862 - Congress passes the Homestead Act accelerating Western
migration by providing white settlers with 160 acres of public land
(land taken from the Indigenous Nations). The Act led to the
distribution of 80 million acres of public land by 1900.
• 1865 - After meeting with freed Africans in Savannah, GA – General
William Sherman responded to their demands for land. In January, he
issued Special Field Order 15 setting aside a huge swath of
abandoned lands along the GA, SC, and FL coasts for Black families.
US Land Dispossession Timeline
9. US US Land Dispossession Timeline
• 1865 - 40,000 freed Africans were settled on some 400,000 acres of land
in GA and SC. Later that summer, President Andrew Johnson reverses the
policy and orders the land be returned to the confederate planter oligarchy.
• 1865 - Congress established the Freedman’s Bureau providing for the
redistribution of abandoned or confiscated lands to freedmen (up to 40
acres). The Freedman’s Bureau never controlled more than two tenths of
1% of the land in the South and President Johnson’s amnesty proclamation
forced restoration of much of that land. Congress shut the Bureau in 1872.
10. Land Dispossession Timeline
• 1866 - The Southern Homestead Act
opens up 46 million acres of public
land in the states of AL, AR, FL, LA,
and MS. Severe opposition to Black
land ownership in the South, places
obstacles in the path of Black farmers
on the state level. Within 10 years, in
June 1876 the Act was repealed by
Congress.
• In spite of neglect, hostility, and
government sanctioned racial
violence, by 1910 Blacks in southern
states, had acquired over 15 million
acres of farmland and controlled
218,000 farms.
11. Land Dispossession Timeline
• 1950-1975 - over a half a
million African American farms
went under, leaving only 45,000.
In the 1960s the Black farm
count in ten southern states
(minus Florida, Texas, and
Kentucky) fell from 132,000 to
16,000, an 88% decline.
12. Land Dispossession Timeline
• Present - Black farmers own less than 3 million acres of farmland
and comprise less than 1% of all U.S. farmers. Moreover, of all private
U.S. agricultural land, whites account for 96% of the owners, 97% of
the value, and 98% of the acres.
• According to recent U.S. Census data, Black farmers own less than 3
million acres of farmland and comprise less than 1% of all U.S.
farmers. Moreover, of all private U.S. agricultural land, whites account
for 96% of the owners, 97% of the value, and 98% of the acres.
13. Heirs Property Challenges
• Partition sales and forced sale of
property
• Property tax sales
• Financing
• Government programs
• Crops and timber
• Profit generating
• Improvements
• Diminishment of interests
• Property management
14. Black Urban Land Loss & Food Insecurity
• Approximately ten million people
have been forced out of their
homes through foreclosure and
bank eviction from 2007 to 2013.
• The US response to food insecurity
is to use access to healthy, fresh,
and affordable food as a
framework for analysis rather than
address the pervasive structural
problem resulting from the
economic marginalization of urban
communities of color by capital
accumulation.
15. Evolution of Kenyan Coastal Land Ownership
• Kilifi is one of the 47 Kenyan coastal counties.
• The county is one of Kenya’s poorest counties
with an absolute poverty level of 71.7 %.
• It has a land area of 12,609.7 sq.Km and a
population projection of 1,466,856
• 52,519.4 ha and 47,681 ha of land are used
for food and cash crops respectively.
• The county has approximately 6,891.sq.km
arable land with 5,407 sq km. of non-arable
land Forests cover 245 sq Km.
• 56 % of the land is useful for agriculture while
44% could be made useful through irrigation
and to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
16. Shift from Communal to Individual Land Tenure
• The 10 mile coastal strip was once
a possession of the sultan of
Zanzibar and was leased to the
British when the East African
Protectorate was established.
• The coastal land was bought by the
British and became part of
independent Kenya in 1963.
• Jomo Kenyatta (the first president
of Kenya) implemented the
practice of “willing seller and
willing buyer.” Only those with
money could own land within the
coastal strip based on the law of
supply and demand.
17. The Politics of Land Grabs
• Land without title deeds was thereafter
declared trust land where the
government settled “politically and
ethnically correct” people leaving many
of the locals landless/squatters.
• Many coastal people were left landless
while upcountry people own fertile land
in the region. This has been the cause
of ethnic conflict since 1990 between
the coastal and upcountry people. (watu
wa bara)
• Private developers grab up beach
property deny citizens the right to
access and enjoy natural resources and
public recreational areas.
18. Dispossession and Displacement
• Some squatters claim that their
families were evicted from their land
in 1960 to pave way for government
projects which haven’t started to date.
• Confrontations between squatters and
land grabbers/city tycoons are
common in kilifi.
• Some squatters claim that they were
evicted from their land in 1960 to
pave way for government projects
which have never materialized.
• Confrontations between squatters and
alleged grabbers/city tycoons are
common in Kilifi
19. Strategies, Models, and Innovation
• Agro-forestry: US
• Agro-forestry: Kenya – Komaza
• Organic Farming driven by people of African descent - ABI
• Heirs property retention - Purposeful reunification of fragmented families
around land retention and economic self-sufficiency parallels Diaspora
organizing,
• Land Retention Strategies.
• Returning Generation Farmers – Historically Black Colleges & Universities
• Diaspora Earthcare Coalition organizing and grassroots resilience-building.
20. Protect Heirs Property from Tax Sale
• Community Land Trust – New
Communities established the first community
land trust in 1969 acquired 5,736 acres of
farm and forest lands in Lee County, GA.
• Revolving Loan Fund – $1 million fund
established by the Emergency Land Fund and
the National Association of Landowners to
assist landowners in thwarting tax sales in
Alabama. Over ten-years ELF and NAL
handled 1,000 plus land cases and saved over
50,000 acres.
• Pooled Financial Resources -
Aggressive bidding at tax sales in order to
restore land to the original landowner or a
landless farmer in the community.
21. US Agroforestry and
Regenerative Agriculture
• Silvo pasture – Combined
agriculture and livestock grazing,
• Ally Cropping – Trees grow
between rows of crops,
• Forest Farming – Food grown
under a managed forest canopy.
• Income producing land
retention strategy.
22. Agroforestry: Komaza Model
Kilifi County – Mombasa Area, Kenya
• Komaza is a forestry social business in
coastal Kenya.
• This model trains small scale farmers,
providing farm inputs including seedlings,
tools, and then markets farmers’ products.
• Farmers receive initial income from early
thinnings in 3-6 years; significant income
from mature harvests takes 8-15 years.
• “Should Komaza pull out, Kilifi people
would fail in this project due to fostered
dependency ─ lack of seed, markets etc.”
─Diaspora Coalition Partner - Dr. Nancy Abwalaba
23. Regenerative Agricultural Land Resilience Models
Food and Land Sovereignty Economic Alternatives
• Goal: Create agricultural infrastructure and conditions that enable people to
produce healthy food and feed themselves locally and regionally.
• Community Land trusts: grassroots-owned and democratically controlled non-
profits formed to purchase, conserve, and sustainably steward land. A goal is to
ensure reliable land access for the rising generation.
• Farm Linking: an online database matches socially disadvantaged farmers with
land, and links emerging farmers with prospective sellers.
• Farmer cooperatives: a platform for growers’ to pool resources for bulk
purchases, and to supply and market their products.
• Incubation farms and farm hubs: centers offering training programs designed to
transfer expertise among beginning, returning generation, and retiring farmers.
• Intentional Communities and Ecovillages: residential platforms for economic
collaboration
24. Regenerative Agricultural Land Resilience Models
Food and Land Sovereignty Economic Alternatives
• Online crowdsourcing: A broad-based public finance platforms.
• Revolving loan fund: A gap financing tool used to develop small scale farming. It is a self-
replenishing pool of money that utilizes interest and principal payments on old loans to issue new
ones.
• Sou-sous: A West African rotating savings and credit association ─a type of informal savings club
arrangement within a small group of people.
• Tontines: An investment plan of 17th century origin, used effectively to date in West and Central
Africa for raising capital. It combines features of a group annuity and a lottery.
• Village collectives: A collaborating group of women’s kitchen gardens.
• Micro-lending: A process whereby small sums of money are loaned to economically stressed
groups of small farmers who do not have access to credit and financing; cottage, and artisanal
industries.
• Slow Money: A movement that provides small farmers with capital in the form of grants,
investments, and low- or no-interest loans through local chapters, regional and national
fundraising events.
25. Regenerative Agricultural Land Resilience Models
Farming Methods & Movements
• Agroecology: The study of ecological processes applied to agricultural production
systems which encourages innovative management approaches.
• Agroforestry: Land management involving the growing of trees in association
with food crops and pastures.
• Biodynamic farming: A method of farming that applies observation of nature as
an interconnected whole ─an organism endowed with archetypal rhythm, to a
farming system.
• Biointensive agriculture: An organic agricultural system that achieves maximum
yields from a minimum area of land, while simultaneously increasing biodiversity
and sustaining soil fertility on a closed system basis.
26. Regenerative Agricultural Land Resilience Models
Farming Methods & Movements
• Food NOT Lawns: A movement focused on replacing urban and suburban lawns
with food-producing organic gardens.
• Organic gardening and farming: An integrated system of agricultural and
livestock production that enhances soil fertility and biological diversity without
the use of synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, fertilizers, genetically modified
organisms (GMOs), and growth hormones.
• Permaculture: An holistic approach based on traditional agricultural practices
that works with natural forces - wind, sun, & water - to provide food, shelter,
water & other needs with minimum labor, and without depleting the land.
• Seed Saving Collectives & Banks: The practice of saving seeds or other
reproductive material (e.g. tubers) from vegetables, grain, herbs, and flowers for
use from year to year for annuals and nuts, tree fruits, and berries for perennials
and trees. Seed banks store seeds to preserve genetic diversity.
27. African Diaspora SWOT Analysis
Internal External
Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
•Land (More than we recognize)
• Desire to be self-reliant and feed
ourselves.
• Historical land-relationship
• Deep ethno-cultural knowledge
of growing food.
• Collective history and ancestral
memory
• Intellect and commitment;
• Multidisciplinary talents
• Community social
structure/network
• Spiritual foundation
• Natural medicine tradition
• Indigenous interrelation.
• Access to 1st generations of
African American immigrant
populations.
• Cash flow
• Grant dependency
• Consumer mindset
• Social cooperation
• Internal wealth production.
• We don’t know where the
money is; subject to the
institutional shell game.
• Mentality of “scarcity”
• Slavery “land trauma”
• Need new models to
combat structural systemic
barriers and collaboration.
• Uninformed elected
officials
• We live in “siloes.”
•Affirmation of our diversity as
global Pan African people.
• Heal from Diaspora and land
trauma.
• Reclaim food value.
• Create our own local, national
and international food
systems.
• Create spiritual spaces to
contemplate/shape our future
survival; resilience;
• Use local food production for
wealth creation leading to
sustainable resilient
communities.
• Devise economic
development strategies
• Connect local farmers Black-
owned restaurants, caterers,
grocery stores
• Climate change.
• Resource depletion.
• Global economic instability.
• Land “grabbing Displacement
and gentrification; loss of
community.
• Land paradigm trauma.
• Disruption and collapse of food
supply.
• Mega-agribusiness
• Loss of biodiversity
• Little control over education
system.
• Little Black investment in Black
business.
28. Diaspora Organizing in Local Circles
• Vision what it means to be an environmental resilience-builder in your
location.
• Identify self-care, spiritual, and cultural practices that sustain us in this
work.
• Create an inventory of resilience-builders committed to food and land
security for people of African American descent.
• Create an Asset Map of your area’s “state of resilience” including all work
in progress.
• Identify additional resources needed to deepen; strengthen and expand
the capacity of environmental resilience-builders.
• Plan how your local circle can best communicate, nourish, and be
nourished by the larger African Diaspora network.