Samina Raja, a University at Buffalo urban planning professor who specializes in food policy and equity, stands alongside her team at a community garden on Breckenridge Street. The team works to address food inequity in Buffalo and beyond.
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Alexander Wright continues work to make this fire-damaged Fruit Belt landmark, pictured in 2019, into the African Heritage Food Co-Op.
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Allison DeHonney is shown making a food delivery in August 2020, the first year of the pandemic.
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"We are unlikely to remedy food inequities” without a greater understanding of what causes poor food environments, says Samina Raja, associate dean for research and inclusive excellence, and principal investigator of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo.
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Volunteers Joe Kurtz, left, and Maggie Rapp from Grass Roots Gardens, and Gail Wells, center, president of the Coppertown Block Club there, decide where to plant donated flowers from the Audubon Society of WNY in the Jesse Clipper Memorial Square off William Street on Sept. 14, 2019.
Samina Raja, an internationally known University at Buffalo expert on building sustainable food systems and healthy communities, has spent more than 20 years studying how to help feed people living in neighborhoods without groceries, concentrating on Buffalo's East Side.
Samina Raja, a University at Buffalo urban planning professor who specializes in food policy and equity, stands alongside her team at a community garden on Breckenridge Street. The team works to address food inequity in Buffalo and beyond.
"We are unlikely to remedy food inequities” without a greater understanding of what causes poor food environments, says Samina Raja, associate dean for research and inclusive excellence, and principal investigator of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo.
Volunteers Joe Kurtz, left, and Maggie Rapp from Grass Roots Gardens, and Gail Wells, center, president of the Coppertown Block Club there, decide where to plant donated flowers from the Audubon Society of WNY in the Jesse Clipper Memorial Square off William Street on Sept. 14, 2019.
