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 has real influence; explore engagement methods that reach people directly; be transparent about the process; identify stakeholders and strategies to engage them; determine meeting guidelines, formats, locations and timing; and communicate honestly and transparently. The overall message is that achieving food justice requires meaningful involvement of all stakeholders in decision-making processes.

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

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How the Grassroots Food Movement
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STAND UP!