Universal Free School Meals: A State-Level Food Policy Advancing Food Justice, Sovereignty, and the Right to Nutrition

Two asynchronous sessions

(6 hours) are provided within the course structure for your completion of the assignment. You must

make proper citation and reference using APA format where appropriate.

This assignment must be

satisfactorily completed in order to receive course credit.

Pick any area of food policy; identify and analyze a relevant policy with specific attention to food

justice, sovereignty, and rights. Your analysis should provide the reader with information to help

answer, What makes this policy food-just or not? Does it need to be amended, expanded, abolished?

To structure your submission, use the following template (adapted from the HWC 510 format for

problem definition and analysis of past policy approaches):

Section 1: Problem Definition [one to one and a half (1

1.5) pages]

What is the problem? Define the specific issue or problem being addressed and discuss what

factors led to its development. What populations are affected by it? Who is advantaged or

disadvantaged by it? What adverse consequences does the problem pose for people, communities,

society?

What are the health/well-being and justice implications of the social problem? How might the

problem be considered a social determinant of health? How might the problem be considered an

issue of justice?

How is the problem perceived? How do affected populations perceive the problem? How do those

unaffected by the problem perceive it?

Section 2: Analysis of Past Policy Approach(es), Background [maximum of one (1) page]

How have past or current policy efforts tried to solve the problem and failed? Describe how policy

actors have tried to solve this problem in the past or present.

In what ways have these approaches succeeded or failed? What can be learned from these past

experiences?

Section 3: Analysis of Past Policy Approach(es), Specific [three to four (3

4) pages; Use

subheadings, as appropriate].

Choose a specific policy from those you introduced in Section 2, above.

Conduct an analysis of the selected policy, with specific attention to food justice, sovereignty, and

rights.

Examine the contextual factors, policy negotiations/tradeoffs, reach/scope, implementation issues,

functional parameters, outcomes, and/or other relevant concerns.

Your analysis should provide the reader with information to help answer, What makes this policy

food-just or not? Does it need to be amended, expanded, abolished?

Extra credit: draw a graphical/artistic representation of the US food system which highlights the

areas of concern you note

Use this resources since we read them to follow the class”

Cadieux, K. V. & Slocum, R. (2015). What does it mean to do food justice? Journal of Political Ecology, 22, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.2458/v22i1.21076

Shannon, D. (2016). Food justice, direct action, and the human rights enterprise. Critical Sociology, 42(6), 799-814. doi: 10.1177/0896920515608924

Chilton, M., & Rose, D. (2009). A Rights-Based Approach to Food Insecurity in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 99(7), 1203–1211.

United Nations. (1948). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.