Hunger and climate change are two of the most pressing, interconnected issues of our time.   It is impossible to discuss the effects of climate change without addressing the crisis’s grave impacts on our existing food systems, and the environmental degradation accelerated by our current agricultural methods. As a result, issues such as hunger, poverty, and economic instability

        When you look at our current food system, it's easy to see the broken links between the people who produce food and the corporate and governing bodies that control its production. Too often, this results in unjust wages for rural workers, lack of economic mobility, and overall poorer livelihoods. Nicaragua’s Association of Rural Workers—Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo (ATC)—was founded in 1978.

Written by Elena Seeley   In this part of our series on economic justice, we spoke to the Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA). Founded in 2009, FCWA is a coalition of worker-based organizations that span all stages of the food system from planting to retail. With thirty-three members, representing over 370,000 food workers in the U.S. and Canada, FCWA works

WhyHunger believes deeply that everyone deserves the right to nutritious food and to live a life of dignity free from fear, hunger, oppression and violence. We join our allies, supporters and hundreds of thousands of advocates across the U.S. and around the world in denouncing the treatment of immigrant families and individuals fleeing a humanitarian crisis in their home countries

This article was originally posted by National Family Farm Coalition.   JFK, as it turns out, was not correct when he noted 60 years ago that the word ‘crisis’ is a combination of the Chinese brush strokes meaning danger and opportunity.  While he was linguistically incorrect, we get what he was saying. A crisis situation can be the impetus for