Duke World Food Policy Center’s Jen Zuckerman and Durham’s Communities in Partnership Board Chair Candace Rashada-Mujahid will give a keynote talk on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at the 2022 Urban Food Systems Symposium in Kansas City, KS. The title of their talk is Rooted in Relationship.
The annual Urban Food Systems Symposium brings together a national and international audience of academic and research-oriented professionals to share and gain knowledge on how to build coalitions to adapt to a changing world, and how urban food systems contribute to these solutions.
Rashada-Mujahid will begin the presentation by framing the community conditions in the East Durham neighborhoods of Durham, North Carolina, that led to the development of Communities in Partnership (CIP). She will discuss the food insecurity rates over time, and typical charitable food assistance efforts that have taken place.
Zuckerman will then present the historical public policy decisions of disinvestment and dispossession that have created the living conditions of East Durham. She will also talk about white-dominant narratives in food insecurity work that are present in Durham and elsewhere.
Rashada-Mujahid and Zuckerman will then present CIP’s relationship-based model for economic development through food.