A world without hunger is possible. Communities around the globe are putting an end to hunger farm by farm, table by table, and neighborhood by neighborhood. We see it in healthy school lunches in Mississippi, on family farms in Puerto Rico and Nicaragua, around dinner tables in Indiana, and in urban gardens in New York City.

For Women’s History Month, we recognize the great strides and invaluable work of women worldwide contributing to the transformation of our human landscape through social, economic and, of course, food justice. Patti Naylor farms with her husband George in west-central Iowa, growing non-GMO and organic corn and soybeans, oats, hay, cider apples, and chickens.  Patti speaks and writes about agriculture,

New York (March 25, 2019)- 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—will present singer-songwriter John Mellencamp with the ASCAP Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award during the 20th Annual WhyHunger Chapin Awards on June 5, 2019 at City Winery in New York.   Mellencamp, a member

Please join us for WhyHunger's Nourishing People and the Planet Film Screening & Discussion on Tuesday, March 19th in NYC from 6:00 to 8:00pm. This free event will begin with a short film about farming and community in Puerto Rico followed by a discussion with Jesús Vázquez from the Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico. Please come out

This story is an update from our original coverage, which can be found here. The collapse of a dam with mining waste in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil took away lives, homes and ways of living. After one month, many families still haven’t been able to locate their loved ones and at least 139 bodies are still under the toxic mud.