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Small-Scale Farm Brings Food Justice To Strengthen Communities Across New Mexico’s Food Deserts
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Small-Scale Farm Brings Food Justice To Strengthen Communities Across New Mexico’s Food Deserts

Los Jardines Institute is supporting Justice40 implementation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and beyond to build healthy and sustainable communities.

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Los Jardines Institute co-founder Richard Moore has been a leader in the environmental justice movement for almost 60 years. Inflation Reduction Act funds made possible by the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice40 Initiative
have provided resources to Los Jardines Institute and other members of the La Cosecha/Agri-Cultura Network farmers’ cooperative to plant fruit trees in schools and neighborhoods in Albuquerque, New Mexico, address food injustice, create nurturing green spaces where there are none, and reduce extreme heat risks in the city’s communities.

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Authors

Margaret Cooney

Senior Campaign Manager of Storytelling, Energy and Environment Campaigns

Devon Lespier

Research Assistant, Energy and Environment Campaigns

Producers

Olivia Mowry

Video Producer

Hai-Lam Phan

Senior Director, Creative

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Energy and Environment

Charting an equitable and just path to a 100 percent clean economy with net-zero climate pollution, protection of 30 percent of lands and waters, and community investments

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