This document discusses keys to achieving food justice, which include procedural justice, substantive justice, and distributive justice. It also outlines seven principles for effective public participation: involve stakeholders early and often; ensure their involvement leads to real influence; explore engagement methods that reach people directly; be transparent about the process; identify interested parties and strategies to engage them; consider logistics like guidelines, formats, locations and timing of meetings; and communicate honestly and transparently. The overall message is that achieving food justice requires meaningful involvement of all affected communities.

1. Tanya Denckla Cobb
Associate Director
UVA Institute for Environmental Negotiation
434/ 924-1855 tanyadc@virginia.edu

2. 3 Keys to Food Justice
ž Procedural justice
ž Substantive justice
ž Distributive justice
ž From:
Sustainable
Communi2es
and
the
Challenge
of
Environmental
Jus2ce,
Julian
Agyeman,
2005,
p
26

3. These Core Values were adopted by the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)
www.iap2.org

5. 1

6. 1

7. 1
Involve Early and Often
All Those Who:
1. Are directly impacted
2. Can block the decision
3. Can provide technical
assistance
4. Are decision‐makers

8. 2
Involvement Should Come
with Real Influence
I.e., enough leverage to
ensure that the
projects goals and
mission and methods
are adhered to.

10. 2
Involvement Should Come
with Real Influence
I.e., enough leverage to
ensure that the
projects goals and
mission and methods
are adhered to.

11. 2
Involvement Should Come
with Real Influence
I.e., enough leverage to
ensure that the
projects goals and
mission and methods
are adhered to.

12. 3
Explore Methods
That DO Reach People

13. 3
Go to Them
Don’t Expect Them to
Come to You

14. 3
One is Not Enough

15. 3
One is Not Enough
Be Transparent About
• Process
• Decision box
• Issues
• Different stakeholders
• Everyone s role
• Ways people participate

16. 4
Identify people and
strategies to reach
them, with stakeholder
steering committee
Identify
 The interests
 The people
representing those
interests
 Strategies to engage
them

17. 5
• Guidelines
• Meeting Format
• Location
• Timing
• Information needs

18. 5
• Guidelines
• Meeting Format
• Location
• Timing
• Information needs

19. 5

20. 6
 What kinds of
information (ask!)
 Presentations, field
trips, workshops,
training
 Languages

21. 6
 What kinds of
information (ask!)
 Presentations, field
trips, workshops,
training
 Languages

22. 7
 Honesty
 Transparency
 How communicated
 When communicated

23. Reclaiming Our Food

24. Reclaiming Our Food
How the Grassroots Food Movement
is Helping Communities
STAND UP!