By:Lisa Morrison

Study and conclude if Guerrilla Gardening is a food justice, community empowerment or EJ movement.

Study community empowerment and food justice through an environmental justice lens.

Contribute to the literature on Environmental Justice and Food Justice.

BEFORE AFTER

Passionate group of gardenersUrban beautification activistsCommunity buildersThey have their own language:

digs, missions, aliases, Fun!

BEFORE AFTER

The right to have access to, produce, buy and sell fresh healthy food free of chemicals that was produced in a humane and sustainable way.

I suggest FJ is a growing movement Search yielded little scholarly work▪ Search details:

MethodAmazon search of:

’food justice’ ‘food movements’

Yielded 139 and 264 respectivelyTallied first 60 publications by 1 year and 5

years increments

Scholarly texts and articles Internet searchesThese resources will be used to

better understand Guerrilla Gardening in relation to: Environmental Justice Community empowerment Food Justice

Approximately 16 principlesThis study will focus on two:

Community based social movement building

Citizens right to have clean air, land, water, and food

Citizens being directly involved in the identification of social and environmental issues and the implementation of possible solutions.

An environmental incident is not a social and environmental problem or conflict until the community acknowledges it .

GG has pinpointed an issue of land abandonment and misuse.

Sectors of business supported by many groups that profit from the exploitation of the environment and weakened environmental regulation

Also known as the ‘boomerang effect’

Introduced new “green” technology to the global South

Why?

Successful?

Carbon dioxide traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere Creates warmer and wetter/dryer

weather such as , drought, flooding, hurricanes with increased:▪ Frequency▪ Intensity ▪ Duration

Which de-stabilizes food production and security.

Texts did not include Food Justice or the Food Justice Movement.

Research is preliminary

Need additional research on both FJ and GG to further validate findings

LAGG- Community Empowerment Movement

LAGG- Urban Beautification Movement, Not Food Justice Movement

Food Justice as well as Guerrilla Gardening should be included in Environmental Justice discourse