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Malik Yakini - From 'Motor City' to food resilience: how Detroit has risen from the ashes !

With the decline of the automobile industry, the city of Detroit has suffered an economic and demographic crisis, causing the municipality bankruptcy in 2013. From nearly 2 million inhabitants in the 1950s, the population fell to 700 000 people. With the city decline, access to fresh healthy affordable food became harder, qualifying Detroit as a “food desert”: according to the Fair Food Network, there is 10 grocery stores for every 100 000 inhabitants in Detroit, which is twice less than in nearby town Ann Arbor. And food access is even worse in neighborhoods with a high percentage of African Americans. As a response, communities have deployed adaptive strategies for food sovereignty and food justice: production, retail, education, policy making, land protection. Through food enterprises, communities are leading Detroit revival. Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, is going to tell us how.