Curious what social innovators are working on in Appalachia, the Navajo Nation, and rural Minnesota? We ask Ashoka Fellows.
of the Navajo Nation, who not only helped pass the first “junk food” tax in the country, but created a model where the millions in revenues now fund hundreds of community health chapters’ creative projects.
Over time, in regions like Appalachia, these forces conspire to create a backdrop of, as Brandon puts it,. “And that's a different thing from circumstantial poverty, where you've had a good job, and you've lost it, and now you're trying to get back in the workforce.”, not just in natural resources but in social, physical, intellectual, and cultural capital, too. Relationships are deep, resourcefulness is a way of life, and creativity is necessary.
Regi notes that our corporate food system and governments undervalue farm workers and ostracize small-farmers despite the fact that smallholders currently produce the majority of the world’s food and, with regenerative practices, can even cool the planet.
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