Samina Raja

CalltoAction_ShahAlam Social, political, and administrative violence results in the death of Mr. Nurul Amin Shah Alam Call to Action Please donate to the family-approved GoFundMe page Click this link to sign the call to ...

Political, administrative, & social violence resulted in the ultimate health injustice: Preventable death of Mr. Nurul Amin Shah Alam. After 15 months as a refugee in the USA, 12 months wrongfully incarcerated, Shah Alam was "let die" in Buffalo, NY. Call for action by researchers and community.

NEW: Congressional leaders & others are calling for investigations into Border Patrol following the death of Nurul Shah Alam, a refugee left by agents at a coffee shop.

Shah Alam, nearly-blind, was left to wander the city. He died Tuesday.

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/c...

Interest Form: Data Justice for Food Justice Learning Circle The Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and convening support from the American Planning Association Fo...

📣 Call to join our Data Justice for Food Justice Learning Circle! Fill out our interest form by February 13th.

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Call for abstracts!

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK FOR CRITICAL FOOD SYSTEMS PLANNING.

Details available at:
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NY state to provide full SNAP benefits in November, according to @governor.ny.gov

How might we inagine planning as public nurturance? This is the question that my colleagues and I explore in a new(ish) book. If you are interested, join a conversation at 12:20 PM EST. In person (Cornell University) and zoom. Join in!

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Samina Raja: Planning [for Urban Agriculture] as Public Nurturance | Cornell AAP Samina Raja presents a care-centered approach from her book Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture that empowers marginalized communities to codesign equitable food and planning systems.

Are you interested in a conversation about urban planning and urban agriculture? Join me on Oct 31 in Ithaca, NY.

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Now Accepting Submissions for the POCIG 2025 Resume-CV Book - Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Inc. The deadline for submissions for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. Please distribute this call widely.

POCIG is preparing our annual collection of CVs from people of color seeking teaching and faculty positions in planning. The deadline for 2025-2026 is Friday, September 12, 2025. More information on CV formatting and submission can be found on ACSP's website here: www.acsp.org/news/679862/...

Community forum on food with Mayoral candidates is underway.

[Where is candidate Scanlon?]

Tonight in Buffalo!

A community forum with prospective mayoral candidates to hear how they are thinking about the city's food system.

Join, learn, and caste an informed vote.

Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities Protracted political conflicts disrupt people's lives, including their ability to feed themselves. Urban planning, operating within the ambit of the state, impacts food systems in conflict cities. ...

ICYMI.

Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.

Open access.

Colleagues in my network: SciENcv is not opening for me. Is anyone else having this problem?

Nice to meet yall at Exeter Food. We are in the process of migrating to bluesky, and will reach out. Thanks for the connect @rachacha.bsky.social

ICYMI. The Growing Food Connections Project hosts a free, searchable database of local government policies and plans (in the US) focused on community food systems. Enjoy!

growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resour...

I did not pay anyone at Planners Magazine to write this: Fungus is the Future.

Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities Protracted political conflicts disrupt people's lives, including their ability to feed themselves. Urban planning, operating within the ambit of the state, impacts food systems in conflict cities. ...

ICYMI.

Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Authors examine how the confluence of weak planning, militarism, and political misgovernance imperils food sovereignty in the conflict city of Srinagar.

Open access.

The article makes excellent points about the consolidation in the grocery store industry.

I hope they use growingfoodconnections.org local government food policy database.

Wrestling with Context Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)

In city planning, context ought to be foreground, not background.

Here are six essays in @planningtheory.bsky.social wrestling with context. My essay deals with the city fo Srinagar in Kashmir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Open access.

Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States This book examines the opportunities and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture in the United States with a focus on ethics and equity in city building. This is an open access book. This is an op...

Fifty+ authors wrote a book arguing for a more equitable and just municipal policy landscape for urban agriculture in US cities (in honor of Jerry Kaufman). The concluding chapter argues for "planning as an act of public nurturance". The book is open access. Enjoy! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Thanks, Danielle! And it's so nice to meet you in person at ACSP finally!!!

UB's Food Lab partners with prominent Kashmiri poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef to celebrate an important Indigenous green called haak

UB's Food Lab partners with prominent Kashmiri poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef to celebrate an important Indigenous green called haak – University of Buffalo | #Indigenous #Food | MORE at EcoSearch

We've published a new fast track article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Alissa Ujie Diamond on 'Entangled Genealogies: Mulberries, Production of Racial Categories, and Land Development in Central Virginia'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantpjournal