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Food Security for Atlanta- Movement Action Plan

Food Security for Atlanta- Movement Action Plan

This paper was part of my final group project for ANTH 301, Collective Behavior and Social Movements. I worked with 2 other Agnes Scott students to create a Movement Action Plan for a social movement of our choosing. We chose Food Security for our movement, as it encompasses food insecurity, hunger, community involvement, sustainability, as well as many other social and historical factors. This is an academic paper that draws on historical and current social structures to explain the current situation Atlanta is in, ultimately showing how historical factors continue to affect the food sphere in Atlanta and beyond. It also offers a plan to counteract or eliminate some of these patterns of discrimination and food insecurity. This paper showcases not only how we combined many different social and historical concepts to create a straight-forward plan for the social movement, but also how well we worked as a group. By combining our ideas, interests, and expertise in different subject matters, we were able to create a plan that encompasses many different aspects of society and produce a multi-dimensional plan for a movement against food insecurity. In creating this project, I realized how important it is to collaborate with others to create effective, multi-disciplinary plans for action, which is something that I hope to continue to be able to do in the future.