Intro In 2017, WhyHunger brought together Anne Frederick of Hawaii Action Progressive Alliance (HAPA) and Magha Garcia of Boricua Organization for Ecological Agriculture of Puerto Rico (Boricua) for an interview and conversation about the similar struggles their island communities face in land acquisition by agrichemical companies to test GMO crops and pesticides. Their conversation became one of the featured pieces

This piece originally appeared on the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance’s website. The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) has released a new publication based on participatory research conducted by Grassroots International intern Alison Kaika, with editing support from Sara Mersha (Grassroots International), Saulo Araujo (WhyHunger), and Stephen Bartlett (Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville). The document synthesizes data collected through interviews with fifteen members involved

In the next issue of the Nourishing Change newsletter, we focus on discussing the dominant narrative around hunger. We spoke with two of our partners, Steven Deheeger, Senior Program Manager at City Harvest and Rae Gomes, the Food Justice Coordinator at the Brooklyn Neighborhood Health Action, about what dominant narrative they wish they could dismantle and what are alternative narratives

Typical office-based internship experiences are not mobile and the work done, even if the work is community-focused, happens from behind the desk. Partnering with Bed-Stuy’s Campaign Against Hunger was a new and exciting experience for me and the WhyHunger Summer 18’ interns who were looking forward to learning through hands-on experience. Historically, underserved, low-income communities in NYC experience less access

This is an Op-ed first published by The Hill. The social contract between our government and its people is hanging on by a thread. If the 2018 Farm Bill is any indication of the strength of that last thread, we are in trouble. With its origins in the New Deal, the Farm Bill’s original three goals were to keep food