United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
Nutritional Injustice Public Service Announcement
Dan Krausz, Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)
Kristopher Kohler, Montgomery College (Maryland)
2021-2022
Introduction:
You are a part of a collegewide effort to increase access to education and empower students
through "open pedagogy." Open pedagogy is a "free access" educational practice that places you
- the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative
learning environment. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in
our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community. This is a
renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your
community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Sociology and Nutrition to achieve
SDG #2: Zero Hunger with a focus on Target 2.1.

Learning Objectives:
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Define food insecurity and food inequity
Identify a specific consequence of food injustice
Utilize scholarly educational materials
Summarize the facts relating to the specific aspect of food injustice
Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills

Purpose/Rationale:
The concept of food injustice is meant to call attention the various factors which place barriers
between people or communities and sufficient, nutritious food. These barriers are not always easy
to recognize. The political economy of food often makes unhealthy food cheaper. Lower income
neighborhoods often have minimal or expensive fruits and vegetables available in local groceries.
Internationally, the dispossession of traditional lands, unequal trade and export-oriented

agriculture make hunger and famine more likely. On Wall Street, the financialization of food has
made scarcity and hunger profitable. Public education regarding these and other dimensions of
food injustice is needed. In this assignment, students will be able to raise awareness in their
communities and/or the public at large about a topic related to food injustice.
Producing public facing educational material will teach students public speaking and professional
presentation skills that have a range of benefits to students in their major, career, civic and
personal life.

Instructions:
1. Begin by conducting research on a specific aspect of food inequity or insecurity. This
could be a contributing factor such as poverty, governmental policy, corporate interests,
climate, conflict, etc.; or a consequence such as malnutrition, obesity, specific nutrient
deficiencies, societal effects, etc. Look HERE to get started. You will be citing your main
source of information in your video.
2. Create a brief “public service announcement style” 2-3 minute video including the
following:
a. A definition of both food inequity and food insecurity
b. A discussion of how these relate to the concept of nutritional injustice
c. A discussion of the specific aspect of inequity or insecurity you chose to study
d. A brief summary of the contributing factors and/or consequences
3. Post the video onto any social media outlets you engage in and/or on the class’s dedicated
“Nutritional Justice” page (if applicable).

Format Requirements:
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Original video using a cell phone app, video camera, or webcam
2-3 minutes in length
The student must be the presenter
Must include a spoken citation in the form of “According to………”
Edit if you are able including title slides, music and/or transitions

Nutritional Injustice Public Service Announcement is licensed by Dan Krausz, Community
College of Baltimore County (Maryland) and Kristopher Kohler, Montgomery College
(Maryland) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)