National Black Food & Justice Alliance
The NBFJA is a massive network which “represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty.” One of the only nationally-oriented food sovereignty organizations included on the map, NBFJA is composed of a large Black-led staff and leadership team from all over the US, each of whom are able to approach this work from a different perspective.
The work being done at NBFJA is deeply attuned to the many factors that have sought to keep Black people from growing their own food and self-reliant communities. As such, they have 4 major strategies for moving toward Black food liberation and sovereignty:
building visibility
institution building
direct action
building togetherness & emerging collective wisdom.