WhyHunger is proud of the impact of our work. We listen and respond to the needs of community-based organizations and social movements who are leading the way forward. Together, we are magnifying our impact and building solutions that transform and last.     BUILDING GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS WhyHunger’s International Solidarity Fund invested $354,021 in strengthening existing and emergent social movements for

It is part of the Hollywood version of the American college experience, to be a broke student surviving on instant noodles in a dormitory. But hunger on college campuses in America is so much more than a plot line. In one of the most developed countries in the world, tens of thousands of students can barely afford food due to

WhyHunger was part of a recent delegation organized by Friends of the ATC (Farmworkers Union). Delegates lived and worked alongside ATC members. Susan Lagos, a long-time Nicaragua resident and former campesina (peasant farmer) herself, translated into English the life experiences told by Emerita Vega, the head of household of the family she stayed with. Our guest blog this week is

By Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs, WhyHunger “In the past five years in the UK, we have seen a steep rise in the number of people seeking emergency food aid in the form of charitable provision, signalling permanence to the existence of food banks. In Canada and the USA, there is a much longer history of charitable food provision.

Reported by Alison Cohen and Colin Lawton For the past 2 months, #PeasantRightsNow has been the focal point of a delegation from across the globe led by La Via Campesina.  Representing millions of farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers in 70 countries, this international movement for food sovereignty has fought and lobbied for