We are thrilled to announce that the UC Berkeley Foodscape Map is online and publicly available. This democratically-produced, dynamic map aims to both reveal barriers to the full participation of historically marginalized community members in food-related learning and practice, and highlight opportunities and successes in overcoming such obstacles. The website includes a multi-layered map of the campus, as well as multiple infographics, audio interviews, and historical timelines. Please visit the map gallery and listen to our collection of narratives.

Thank you to the more than 95 contributors who have informed and participated in this collaborative project so far and to our many project donors for your support to make this map possible! We will be continuing to map additional data in the coming year and look forward to presenting recommendations to UC Berkeley's new administration.

Contact us at foodinstitute@berkeley.edu with feedback, questions or suggestions or sign up here to get more involved. 

-The Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems at UC Berkeley team

Dear Project Supporters,

We are excited to announce that we closed our campaign with a grand total of $8,298 raised, which represents 83% of our stretch goal and 138% of our original $6,000 goal! With your generous support, we will be able to fund the Foodscape mapping software, a "Map Reveal" event tentatively scheduled for late spring 2017 and the majority of a graduate student fellowship to help with these activities. 

Thank you again for your wonderful support of Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems at UC Berkeley. We will be in touch periodically over the next several months with project updates and milestones. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions or suggestions at any time!

Our very best to you,

The Berkeley Food Institute Project Team

Dear Project Supporters and Fans,

We have just hours left to raise funds for our crowdfunding campaign for Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems at UC Berkeley! Incredible thanks to all of you who have supported this important project; we are currently at 76% of our goal!

Please consider sharing our page with your networks near and far today and help us get as close as we can to the $10K mark-- we are almost there and could use one final push!

Thank you for your support!

The Berkeley Food Institute Project Team

Join Us this Wednesday 10/26 for the Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems Faculty Panel

This exciting event will feature discussion about the tangible and conceptual outcomes of undoing inequality in the context of the UC Berkeley food system. Learn and engage in discussion with the panelists about:

• The forces/dynamics that shape our food system and hinder equity and inclusion in it, specifically financialization and corporate control/consolidation.
• The inequalities that exist in growers gaining access to means of production, such as land and water and the rights of food and farm workers to control their work conditions.
• Specific examples that highlight both food system exclusion and community-engaged efforts to build a more equitable and inclusive food system, including immigrant and minority farmers in California, urban food disparities, and food insecurity in Native American communities.
• How dynamics in the larger food system play out at UC Berkeley and what can and should be done on campus to advance equity and inclusion within the campus food system and beyond.

The event is free and open to the public; registration is recommended.

We hope to see you there!

Dear Project Supporters and Fans,

We have just one week left to complete our crowdfunding campaign for Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems at UC Berkeley! Thanks to all of you who have supported the project, we are 2/3 of the way to reaching our goal! If you're willing, we would greatly appreciate your help to raise the remaining funds by sharing our page with your networks.

We also wanted to share the project's budget breakdown, pasted below and now included in our project description on the campaign homepage:

Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems at UC Berkeley Project Budget

• $4,000 Mapping Software
• $2,000 Foodscape Map Reveal Event
• $4,000 Graduate Student Fellow

$10,000 Total Project

Thank you again for your support and for helping us in our final week to close out the campaign!

The Berkeley Food Institute Project Team

Building Equitable and Inclusive Food Systems Faculty Panel

This exciting event will feature discussion about the tangible and conceptual outcomes of undoing inequality in the context of the UC Berkeley food system. Panelists will address issues of student, faculty and staff representation and participation, with the aim of redesigning the social, cultural and political institutions that determine food studies and food access on campus.

Given that disparities in wealth, opportunity and privilege affect everything from research agendas to rates of student hunger, exclusion and marginalization remain a reality at UC Berkeley. Panelists will thus consider the question: In what ways could equity across our campus food system precipitate strategic steps toward a more humane, democratic, and inclusive society? This discussion will both grapple with theory and suggest practical solutions.

The event is free and open to the public; registration recommended. Special access available for crowdfunding donors who make a gift by Oct. 20!

Due to the generosity of a very supportive group of early donors, we are increasing our goal to $10,000.