This is a substantial contribution to food security literature. Her interdisciplinary approach does a fine job of placing her original research within a larger context.

Ralph Lutts, coordinator of the MA Concentration in Environmental Studies, Goddard College

Camille Tuason Mata has provided a very comprehensive and extensive study of the ways minorities have been marginalized from the sustainable food system in California. . . . Her thesis is applicable to many places, including India, where farmers are pushing to be more central to the food system. The [thesis], I should say, is very good.

Krishnan Subramanian, independent farming professional, Research and Study Centre for Organic Farming, Chennai, India

Her research renders both a comprehensive and in-depth picture of the current state of minority food access in Oakland. . . . Tuason Mata lays out the evolution of organic agriculture and explains why our growing understanding of community organic agriculture is integral to community food security in the twenty-first century.

Greg Gerritt, coordinator, Rhode Island Compost Initiative, Environment Council of Rhode Island