We’re expecting twins y’all! It is with great honor that we announce the first two offerings of our Living Concept Book Series. The objective of this series is to expand the knowledge of key concepts necessary for the struggle toward Black Land and Food Sovereignty. 

On Food Apartheid: Seeing the Problem was developed as a teaching tool on the conditions termed as food apartheid. The text delivers perspectives on the sociopolitical phenomena that many food justice and food sovereignty organizers and activists have used to describe the conditions of rural, peri-urban, and urban people who experience food and land disparities rooted in race and class.

On Food Apartheid aims to broaden understanding through historical and contemporary examples of the nuances of food apartheid. The book also aims to engender curiosity and further action in addressing food apartheid in places where it should not exist. The author promises to engage readers through engrossing analyses of the underpinnings of the power imbalances characterized by food apartheid while making a compelling argument for moving away from simple understandings of mere unhealthy food access. 

In this third title by the author, Eric Jackson adds to Black Yield Institute’s body of work. On Black Land and Food Sovereignty: Projecting the Solution seeks to stake the claim that Black Land & Food Sovereignty (a movement building and freedom establishment framework) is a viable pathway to address the insidious nature of ‘food apartheid’ (which is explored in On Food Apartheid: Seeing the Problem).

On Black Land and Food Sovereignty is an instructional mini-book that seeks to help readers develop and ground themselves in pathways that change food environments and food systems by restoring and establishing power. The text looks at historical examples and seeks to define both conceptually and operationally how this movement framework can exist.

Admittedly, the author aims to percolate and stimulate thought that would help people move to action toward the aim of building community power and establishing sovereignty through food and land.