Series Foreword

Nurturing Food Justice: Expansive and Intersectional Visions is the twentyfifth book in the Food, Health, and the Environment series.The series explores the global and local dimensions of food systems and the issues of access; social, environmental, and food justice; and community well-being.Books in the series focus on how and where food is grown, manufactured, distributed, sold, and consumed.They address questions of power and control, social movements and organizing strategies, and the health, environmental, social, and economic factors embedded in food-system choices and outcomes.As this book demonstrates, the focus is not only on food security and wellbeing but also on economic, political, and cultural factors and regional, state, national, and international policy decisions.Food, Health, and the Environment books therefore provide a win dow into the public debates, alternative and existing discourses, and multidisciplinary perspectives that have made food systems and their connections to health and the environment critically impor tant subjects of study and for social and policy change.