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Being one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in Southern California, Mexican and Latinx communities have continuously played a significant role in the shaping of major cities. Despite the history of racist and exclusionary urban planning and policy, Latinxs have persevered through adaptive and creative methods of creating space and reusing resources. Such strength, creativity, and resourcefulness are assets within Latinx communities and are also ways that they practice sustainability, thus having the potential to play a significant role in the development of sustainable cities. Therefore, by focusing local solutions and development projects on community assets as opposed to just community need, voice, autonomy, and inclusion are given to Latinx communities, where they not only participate in the development projects that affect them but are the drivers of the solutions and positive changes they see in their communities. I will be doing two case studies on two non-profit community-based organizations, Huerta del Valle and East LA Community Corporation, who practice this form of asset-based community development. Being situated in two of the most population dense areas in Southern California with the highest concentrations of Mexican and Latinx people, East Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, both organizations serve predominantly Mexican and Latinx communities. By practicing asset-based community development through their programming, Huerta del Valle and East LA Community Corporation are connecting their local communities to decision-making spaces, socially and economically empowering their communities, and overseeing green communal urban spaces. Thus, through asset-based community development, these two organizations are able to uplift and meet the needs of both human ecosystems and the natural ecosystems, creating socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable cities, especially for historically marginalized urban communities.

This senior environmental studies thesis explains and analyzes edible education through a food and gardening program at a continuation high school in Claremont, California. The first chapter situates the program-specific analysis by providing background information of the edible education movement, a history of the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California, and an explanation of why food is a powerful teaching tool. The second chapter delineates the program by describing all of its components and compiling essential resources and teaching documents. The third chapter is based on interviews with 9 of 12 involved students and 7 teachers, and thoroughly explains the outcomes of the program for students, the high school at large, and the overall Claremont community. Overall, this work demonstrates the successes of edible education, the power of school gardening programs, and provides a useful resource for the continuation of the program.

Bien que Montréal soit située dans un pays capitaliste avancé, certains secteurs de la métropole tels que Montréal-Nord sont plus vulnérables sur le plan de l’accès à l’alimentation que d’autres arrondissements montréalais. Caractérisé par une forte population immigrante, un taux de chômage élevé et une forte proportion de citoyens vivant avec un faible revenu, cet arrondissement se distingue par le fait qu’un ménage sur trois est touché par l’insécurité alimentaire. Les études menées sur le sujet tentent généralement d’identifier les zones plus affectées à l’intérieur de l’arrondissement par le biais d’approches quantitatives et d’analyses spatiales. Ce mémoire propose plutôt d’examiner les diverses formes d’interventions qui cherchent à répondre au problème de la faim sur ce territoire en élaborant une typologie permettant de les organiser selon leur degré de remise en question du système alimentaire. Le système alimentaire actuel génère d’importantes inégalités en termes d’accès à l’alimentation. En le réinvestissant, les citoyens Nord-Montréalais développent graduellement une forme de démocratie alimentaire. Le haut niveau d’insécurité alimentaire à Montréal-Nord démontre que l’approche traditionnelle qui s’articule généralement par des solutions allant du haut vers le bas pour répondre au problème de la faim ne suffit pas à adresser la racine du problème. Une nouvelle approche plus radicale et axée sur des solutions provenant du bas vers le haut, se doit d’être identifiée pour commencer à réfléchir aux nouvelles alternatives qui s’offrent aux citoyens de Montréal-Nord afin de réellement s’attaquer aux causes structurelles de l’insécurité alimentaire. / Although Montreal is located in an advanced capitalist country, certain sectors of the metropolis such as Montreal North are more vulnerable in terms of food access than other Montreal boroughs. Characterized by a large immigrant population, a high unemployment rate and a high proportion of citizens living on low income, this district is distinguished by the fact that one in three households is affected by food insecurity. Studies on the subject generally attempt to identify the most affected areas within the borough by means of quantitative approaches and spatial analyzes. This thesis propose rather propose to examine the various forms of intervention which seek to respond to the problem of hunger in this territory by developing a typology allowing them to be organized according to their degree of questioning of the food system. The current food system generates significant inequalities in terms of food access. By reinvesting it, the citizens of North Montreal are gradually developing a form of food democracy. The high level of food insecurity in Montreal-North demonstrates that the traditional approach, which generally revolves around top-down solutions to addressing the problem of hunger, is not enough to address the root of the problem. A new, more radical approach focused on bottom-up solutions must be identified in order to start thinking about the new alternatives available to the citizens of Montreal-North in order to truly tackle the structural causes of food insecurity.

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[pt] Esta pesquisa destina-se à análise crítico-jurídica dos determinantes sistêmicos (jurídicos, políticos e econômicos) que atuam em face da efetividade dos instrumentos da justiça alimentar (do direito humano à alimentação adequada, da política de segurança alimentar e nutricional e da soberania alimentar) no Brasil. A fim de identificar e demonstrar como atuam os principais determinantes sistêmicos da justiça alimentar, dividiu-se a tese em três capítulos. O jurídico está dividido em duas seções que analisam os limites de fundamentabilidade e de justiciabilidade do ordenamento jurídico do direito humano à alimentação adequada. O político está dividido em três seções. A primeira analisa a crise da democracia como um macrodeterminante político da efetividade dos instrumentos da justiça alimentar. A segunda seção analisa injustiça alimentar como um determinante das assimetrias de poder entre os cidadãos e o sistema alimentar agroindustrial brasileiro. Na terceira seção analisam-se as espécies de determinantes políticos estruturais da injustiça alimentar que atuam em face da efetividade da política de segurança alimentar. O econômico está dividido em duas seções. Na primeira, analisam-se os determinantes econômicos na cadeia do sistema alimentar; e, na segunda, as espécies de determinantes econômicos de natureza processual-representativa: a comoditização, a corporificação e o poder de subordinação da propriedade e do mercado. Através de conclusões parciais, ao final dos capítulos, e das considerações finais, apresentam-se os principais limites, obstáculos e determinantes sistêmicos para a efetividade dos instrumentos da justiça alimentar no Brasil. / [en] This research is intended for the critical-legal analysis of the systemic determinants (legal, political and economic) that act in the face of the effectiveness of food justice instruments (the human right to adequate food, food and nutrition security policy and food sovereignty) in Brazil. In order to identify and demonstrate how the main systemic determinants of food justice work, the thesis was divided into three chapters. The legal is divided into two sections that analyze the limits of justiciability and justiciability of the legal system of the human right to adequate food. The politician is divided into three sections. The first analyzes the crisis of democracy as a political macro-determinant of the effectiveness of food justice instruments. The second section analyzes food injustice as a determinant of power asymmetries between citizens and the Brazilian agro-industrial food system. In the third section, the types of structural political determinants of food injustice that act in the face of the effectiveness of the food security policy are analyzed. The economic is divided into two sections. In the first one, the economic determinants in the food system chain are analyzed; and, in the second, the species of economic determinants of a procedural-representative nature: commoditization, embodiment and the power of subordination of property and the market. Through partial conclusions, at the end of the chapters, and final considerations, the main limits, obstacles and systemic determinants for the effectiveness of food justice instruments in Brazil are presented. / [fr] Cette recherche est destinée à l analyse critique-juridique des déterminants systémiques (juridiques, politiques et économiques) qui agissent face à l efficacité des instruments de justice alimentaire (le droit humain à une alimentation adéquate, la politique de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle et la souveraineté alimentaire) au Brésil. Afin d identifier et de démontrer le fonctionnement des principaux déterminants systémiques de la justice alimentaire, la thèse a été divisée en trois chapitres. Le juridique est divisé en deux sections qui analysent les limites de la justiciabilité et de la justiciabilité du système juridique du droit humain à une alimentation adéquate. Le politicien est divisé en trois sections. La première analyse la crise de la démocratie comme un macro-déterminant politique de l efficacité des instruments de justice alimentaire. La deuxième section analyse l injustice alimentaire comme un déterminant des asymétries de pouvoir entre les citoyens et le système alimentaire agro-industriel brésilien. Dans la troisième section, les types de déterminants politiques structurels de l injustice alimentaire qui agissent face à l efficacité de la politique de sécurité alimentaire sont analysés. L économie est divisée en deux sections. Dans le premier, les déterminants économiques de la chaîne du système alimentaire sont analysés ; et, dans le second, les espèces de déterminants économiques de nature procédurale-représentative : la marchandisation, l incarnation et le pouvoir de subordination de la propriété et du marché. À travers des conclusions partielles, à la fin des chapitres, et des considérations finales, les principales limites, obstacles et déterminants systémiques de l efficacité des instruments de justice alimentaire au Brésil sont présentés.