Teens for Food Justice
The type of farming TFFJ does with students
What is Hydroponic
Food that is discarded that is or was fit for human consumption at some point. It can occur at any point in the food production process. This accounts for 30-40% of the US food supply.
What is Food Waste
A single piece of land tended to collectively on which vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers are often grown.
What is a Community Garden
The federal program that helps individuals and families purchase food. This program is considered one of the most effective forms of economic stimulus and reduces long term poverty and food insecurity.
What is SNAP (the supplemental nutrition assistance program), formerly food stamps.
Teens for Food Justice typically works in what kind of setting?
What is Schools
A complex web of activities involving the production, processing, transport, and consumption of food.
What is Food System
What is compost (or composting)
The type of farming occurring within and around cities. Often in the forms of outdoor farms and gardens, hydroponic and aquaponic indoor farms and rooftop gardens and farms.
What is Urban Agriculture
The primary agricultural and food policy tool of the United States federal government. It is renewed every 5 years and impacts food assitance programs, conservation, research, trade, food safety, and other agricultural and food issues.
What is the Farm Bill
Teens for Food Justice is galvanizing a ___________ food justice movement
What is youth-led
When all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious foods that meet their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.
Fruits, vegetables, whole grains...lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs and nuts...that are low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, sodium and added sugars are considered this.
What is healthy food
The movement beginning in 2012 by fast-food workers in New York City who went on strike for higher wages, better working conditions and the right to unionize without retaliation from their managers.
The Latino American civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Dolores Huerta.
Who is Cesar Chavez
TFFJ believes access to healthy food is a ________ _______
What is a human right
Areas in the U.S. where people have limited access to a variety of healthy and affordable food.
What is Food Desert
The system that aims to provide vulnerable populations with food on a temporary and supplemental basis at no cost. Food pantries and soup kitchens are examples. More and more people have utilized this system due to the COVID pandemic.
What is the Emergency Food System
The Free Breakfast for Children Program was started by this group in the late 1960s to support the health and academic performance of low-income youth while promoting self-determination in Black communities.
What is the Black Panther Party
The agricultural professor at Tuskegee University who is renowned as one of the leading pioneers of sustainable agriculture. He is known for popularizing pick-your-own and community supported agriculture models.
Who is Dr. Booker T. Whatley
TFFJ distributes the food we grow to ___________ and _________.
What is cafeterias and communities
The term used to describe the systemic social and racial inequalities that make it difficult for people living in low-income neighborhoods to access fresh, healthy food while people living in high-income neighborhoods have an abundance of healthy food options.
What is Food Apartheid
The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods and a community's right to define their food and agricultural systems.
What is food sovereignty
A centrally located facility that facilitates the aggregation, storage, processing, distribution and/or marketing of locally and/or regionally produced food products.
What is a food hub
The class action discrimination lawsuit led by Black Farmers against the USDA which uncovered evidence of systemic racial discrimination by the agency. It is the largest civil rights class action suit in US history.
What is Pigford v Glickman