Food Justice Voices

WhyHunger’s Food Justice Voices series was created to support and amplify the voices of people working to regain control of their communities’ food system. Telling their own stories, these individual leaders and communities are on the front lines shaping the movement to alleviate food insecurity and build food justice across America. WhyHunger believes that telling one’s story is not only an act of reclaiming in the face of the dominant food narrative of this country, but also an affirmation that the small acts of food sovereignty happening across the country add up to a powerful, vital collective.

Solidarity, Education and Action! Comedores Sociales: An emerging movement in Puerto Rico

Before Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck in 2017, a large percentage of Puerto Ricans faced food insecurity on a daily

Neighbors Together

View our online interactive web page Thirty-five years ago, the community of central Brooklyn saw a steep decline in quality

Pathology of Displacement: The Intersection of Food Justice and Culture

In new Food Justice Voices issue Pathology of Displacement: The Intersection of Food Justice and Culture, storyteller, healing practitioner and

El Sueño Americano ― The American Dream

Food Justice Coordinator Kathia Ramirez shares her perspective on the journey of immigrant farmworkers pursuing the American dream and shares

A Farmer Like Me: Exploring Hunger, Race and Farming in America

In Food Justice Voices “A Farmer Like Me: Exploring Hunger, Race and Farming in America,” farm and food justice activist

Cultivating International Solidarity Through Popular Resistance

Rural family farmers and migrant farmworkers are at the front lines of the climate, fossil fuel, fracking, water and land

What Ferguson Means for the Food Justice Movement

Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was shot and killed on Aug. 9, 2014 by Darren Wilson, a white

Agroecological Approaches to Poverty, Migration and Landlessness

Agroecology | Poverty | Migration & Landlessness At the U.S.-Mexico border, surveillance cameras and military check-points are part of everyday

Dignity, Hope, Wellness and Action: Against All Odds in the Sonoran Desert

A firsthand account of community-led groups and individuals in the Sonoran desert borderlands who are building dignity through struggle from

Social Justice for Lunch: Delta Fresh Foods Initiative at the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference

Social Justice for Lunch explores the work of the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative (DFFI) to transform the food system in

Youth Food Justice Zine

Explore a compilation of drawings, poems, photos and short stories that elevates the voices of youth food justice activists, as