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Farm to Institution: Introduction
People value food produced locally through direct relationship with farmers -- this extends to the realm of institutional decisions, too. From school and hospital cafeterias to restaurants and businesses, consumers are going local in a big way.
01-04-2014
Farmworker Awareness Week Call to Action
Join us in celebrating this year’s Farmworker Awareness Week, a national event that brings light to issues facing farmworkers and their families across the country. The annual event is organized by the Student Action for Farmworkers, a support organization that engages youth, students, and communities in increasing awareness of injustice in the agricultural system. The week of action began last Monday, March
28-03-2014
Building a Life of Dignity in Brazil with Agroecology
Alison Cohen is WhyHunger's Senior Director of Programs. This post originally appeared on Care2. Sueli and her chickens, nearly ready to distribute to other families in her base group. “A dignified life,” according to our campesina host Sueli during a recent site visit to her rural home along the Ribeira river in Brazil, “is one where you can work to produce food — enough
19-03-2014
Homemade Jams: 100 House Concerts to End Hunger
100 House Concerts to End Hunger
18-03-2014
Peer-to-Peer Learning: Nourishing Connections
Nourishing Connections is a new project from the National Hunger Clearinghouse that connects emergency food providers to resources and helps bring together like-minded organizations to foster shared learning. One of our goals is to support building connections between emergency food providers that will share resources, best practices, and ideas leading to greater unity between food banking and community food security.
17-03-2014
Farm Labor Reality Tour: One Year On
This weekend, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is ending their ten-day "Now Is the Time" tour with rallies in Lakeland, Florida, headquarters of Publix supermarkets, asking the grocery giant to come to the table and join the Fair Food Program. In southwestern Wisconsin, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD) are gathering to honor the next generation of activist farmers with the John
14-03-2014
AAH&P Community Corner
A Talk with Jen Chapin
14-03-2014
Empowerment via Vegetables
Our long-time partner and friend Food, What?! has just produced a stellar short film about their fantastic youth empowerment work. Check it out to hear some strong youth voices and to get inspired about the power of food—and justice—to change a  young person’s life.
12-03-2014
SFSP Registration Template
11-03-2014
John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize Awarded
John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize winner Blain Snipstal (center) with Joel Greeno (left), now President of Family Farm Defenders, and FFD board member Bob St. Peter at the 2013 US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly. WhyHunger congratulates the winners of the John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize: Blain Snipstal of Five Seeds Farm near Sparks, MD and Jed
10-03-2014

Statement from WhyHunger on Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Plan to Cut Food Stamps

New York (January 17, 2020) – Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs at WhyHunger, issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed by 14 states, Washington, D.C. and New York Read more.
January 17, 2020
Hungerthon Campaign Raises $1 Million to End Hunger for Good

New York (January 6, 2020) —WhyHunger— a leader in the movement to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world—today announced Read more.
January 6, 2020
Statement from WhyHunger on the Unwarranted SNAP Requirements

Statement from WhyHunger on the Unwarranted SNAP Requirements New York (December 4, 2019) – Noreen Springstead, executive director of WhyHunger, issued the following statement regarding the tightening of work requirements Read more.
December 5, 2019
WhyHunger’s Hungerthon Campaign Aims to End Hunger

WhyHunger’s Hungerthon Campaign Aims to End Hunger – 34thannual awareness month and fundraising drive launches November 1 –   New York (October 30, 2019)—WhyHunger— a leader in the movement to Read more.
October 30, 2019


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Food Access Problems need Food Justice Solutions

Canadians have a right to food – sort of. In accordance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which the Canadian government ratified in 1976, everyone living Read more.
January 16, 2020
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 basis. In fact, Puerto Ricans were 4 times more likely Read more.
July 8, 2019
L’agroécologie

L’agroécologie permet aux communautés de définir eux-mêmes leurs propres solutions pour produire des aliments sains et conserver les eaux et les sols.   Read more.
April 12, 2018
Agroecology

WhyHunger is proud to release its first agroecology publication, “Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty into Action.” Agroecology is an agricultural method… Read more.
April 12, 2018


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