Leah Penniman: 2 books

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Leah Penniman tells us a story about race and the food system and how we can decolonize and re-indigenize our relationship to land and to food....

In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly...