Growing Grassroots Power

We support solutions and the local experts who are best equipped to create lasting access to nutritious food.

Funding and advancing movements led by those most impacted is the only way to successfully rebuild our food systems. We build relationships based on trust and flexible support. We listen to what communities need, invest in their solutions, amplify their stories, and respond quickly when disaster strikes.

This means investing in community gatherings and strategy development, worker rights, and education that unites scientific practices with Indigenous knowledge to produce food so everyone can choose what goes on their table and how it is produced.

Supporting Movements

We build global solidarity through advocacy, shared learning, and power-building.

We support a powerful network of partners united in a common vision for ending hunger and working at its intersections with justice. We collaborate with small-scale farmers, community leaders, and organizations in 24 countries worldwide to press for policies that advance food justice. We support artists in taking action and mobilizing resources to further democratic participation, grassroots organizing, and movement building.

Amplifying Community Voices

Our partners are changing the narrative about hunger.

We use connection and the power of storytelling to uplift the experiences of our partners and allies who are changing the narrative around hunger and its solutions. These narrative change strategies help to create the social, political, and cultural conditions needed for movements and organizing efforts to succeed.

Advocating for the Right to Food & Justice Over Charity

Framing hunger as a human right to adequate food and nutrition drives systemic change and holds governments accountable for respecting, protecting, and fulfilling this right for all.

As a member of the Global Network on the Right to Food, we protect the right to food by supporting global social movements. In the U.S., where this right isn’t legally recognized, we advocate using a rights-based framework. This includes access to nutritious, affordable, and sustainable food through dignified means.

WhyHunger helps lead the Closing the Hunger Gap Network (CTHG), a national alliance shifting from charity to justice. We support food charity organizations and community leaders in addressing hunger’s root causes, transforming emergency feeding systems, and changing the narrative around ending hunger.

Scaling Out Agroecology

Agriculture is led by the wisdom of those who work the land and waters and unites science with Indigenous knowledge.

This form of agriculture, called agroecology, is a way for communities to build independence from the industrial food system, protect access to land and resources, and advocate for policies that support sustainable production. Agroecology is a way of life practiced worldwide and is proven to reduce hunger, create economic stability, cool the planet, and strengthen democratic engagement. We’re building a future with more agroecology schools and farmer-to-farmer training.


Black and Indigenous Food Sovereignty

WhyHunger actively supports Black and Indigenous communities in their pursuit of food sovereignty, emphasizing self-determination, cultural connection, and ecological sustainability.

By centering the experiences and leadership of Black and Indigenous communities, WhyHunger aims to address structural inequities and promote sustainable, culturally appropriate food systems.

Rapid Response

Natural and human-made disasters are a major threat to immediate and long-term food security.

Our Rapid Response Fund exists to mobilize funds quickly when disaster strikes. We know that our partners, who live and work in these communities, are the true first responders. So, we assist them with urgent needs for food, water, and medicine, as well as long-term support to rebuild homes, farms, and communities.