At WhyHunger we know it’s important to stay critically informed on the issues related to hunger and poverty, while also uplifting the voices, stories and successes of grassroots food justice advocates. So, every couple of weeks we’ll be sharing a compilation of articles that highlight the intersections of racial, social and environmental justice to spur conversations and keep you up-to-date

Today a delegation of seven African American, Latinx, and Mexican farmers and farmworkers from the US arrive in Johannesburg, South Africa to participate in the second South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange. For 10 days, the delegates will travel around urban and rural South Africa to meet with small farmers, farmworkers, Agroecologists, and organizers in the Food Sovereignty movement to learn and exchange social,

This is a repost from the original article found here. As a proud member of the Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition we’re happy to share this latest publication that examines the challenges and opportunities of the continuing world food crisis. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO), launched its tenth anniversary edition of the Right to Food

The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank (LARFB) serves more than 300,000 people each month through a variety of programs meant to “mobilize resources to fight hunger in the community.” In the LA region where 16% or 1.4 million residents don’t know where their next meal is coming from, LARFB goes beyond providing emergency food via its 625 partner agencies to include

In case you missed the exciting news, New York City recently announced "free lunch for all" in public schools. This is an initiative that WhyHunger has advocated and fought for, for years. Here's what our Co-founder and Ambassador Bill Ayres had to say: “In the midst of so much bad news in our country and our world, it is a