Non-fiction books centered on decolonizing food access and land stewardship.
Recommendations and feedback encouraged! I have not read all of the books listed.
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last updated August, 2026
Jayden's Impossible Garden
MĂŠlina Mangal
Horticultural Appropriation: Why Horticulture Needs Decolonising
Claire Ratinon
Native American Ethnobotany
Daniel E. Moerman
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i
Candace Fujikane
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
Bruce Pascoe
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha 'Aina, and Ea (Indigenous Americas)
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
J. KÄhaulani Kauanui
We Want Land to Live: Making Political Space for Food Sovereignty (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
Amy Trauger
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Plant Teachings from My Auntie: Gathering Coast Salish Plants for Medicine, Textiles, Nourishment, and Ceremony
Geraldine Manson C'tasi:a
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice
Christopher Carter
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
Hanna Garth
Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America
Douglas Deur
Pataka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Jessica Hutchings
Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well
Mariaelena Huambachano
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast (Indigenous Confluences)
Charlotte CotĂŠ
Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City
Dr. Yuki Kato
Luschiimâs Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie
Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Solutions for Climate Displacement
Jessica Hernandez Ph.D.
Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)
Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Black Food Justice)
Bobby J. Smith II
Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Shahu Patole
Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Enrique SalmĂłn
Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other
Brittany Luby
Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons
Justine M. Williams
Thomas Sankara Speaks
Thomas Sankara
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