The Sankofa report
British colonialism and the UK food system
Written by Jada Phillips. Photo courtesy of Food Matters.
Food Justice has been defined as a movement to dismantle social inequalities to create access to healthy, available, nutritious and culturally relevant food. The food justice movement is inherently a social justice movement with the aim of eradicating any form of oppression that may restrain a person’s ability to access and participate in the food system. Race is severely underrepresented in much of the food system transformation work happening across the UK.
Conversations about identity, particularly race, should be at the forefront of every social movement to ensure that everybody is represented, has access and can participate. However, the work of dismantling structures of oppression is often obscured by larger narratives of colour-blind equality or multiculturalism…