By Alison Cohen, WhyHunger’s Senior Director of Programs. This post first appeared on EcoWatch. Krishnappa standing on the edge of his food forest sharing his experiential knowledge of Zero Budget Natural Farming with local farmers. Photo credit: WhyHunger It is late-July. A car drops us off at the edge of a patchwork of agricultural fields on the outskirts of Mysore

Using the collaborative network approach, grassroots leaders in these regions are organizing their communities and creating vibrant and resilient plans and projects for a local food system that benefits and reflects the priorities and values of the entire community . Their innovations and successes have attracted new resources to their communities, increased community engagement in health issues, raised regional and

This May, Nourish Network for the Right to Food hosted the 2015 Health and Hunger Summit. WhyHunger sat down with summit participants Stephanie Solomon, Director of Education and Outreach at Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, and Alyssa Wassung, Director of Policy and Planning at God’s Love We Deliver, to talk about hunger, health, and the right to food. WhyHunger: What does the

WhyHunger’s Global Movements Program uses the practice of contextual analysis to sharpen our skills of analysis to work effectively with dynamic social movements for positive change. Being an effective grassroots movement support organization means understanding the context for community-based organizations. And in order to build international solidarity between grassroots organizations and social movements in the United States and in the