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Wicked Leeks' reporters round up the highlights from the Oxford Real Farming Conference with speakers discussing indigenous and workers’ rights and routes to sustainable food.
Plant-based Nigerian cook Tomi Makanjuola was told her work was ‘unsellable’ because she ‘wasn’t a Nigella Lawson’ – now a successful self-published food writer, she tells David Jesudason about the realities of racism in food publishing, cultural barriers to veganism and the versatility of plantains.
Our co-owner council discussed the issue last week: reading the notes, I was struck by the depth, nuance and humility.
With issues of racism and race inequality being discussed like never before, David Jesudason hears why agriculture is still a closed shop for people of colour.
There is really only one story this week. The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer has produced global grief and outrage, and a ripple effect of protests across the world that come in context of a long history of racial injustice and violence against the black community.
Issue 12: Fairness and five years.
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