Those that harvest our food often are nutrition insecure. Cultivate Abundance, a Florida-based nonprofit organization that partners with immigrant farmworkers, is helping to solve this problem by improving access to culturally important foods in their local emergency food system. Their work also highlights research on biodiversity of garden spaces and how it is used for food sovereignty within immigrant farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida. This session explores barriers to food access for these communities and how RDNs and NDTRs can both partner with and serve their nutrition insecure clients.
Planned with the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group