This spotlight is a feature in a series of the USDA Community Food Project Competitive Grant Program (CFP) completed for WhyHunger’s digital storytelling website, Community Voices, that showcases grassroots organizations and community leaders through dynamic stories and pictures, to give a real view of projects that are working to alleviate food insecurity and increase communities’ access to nutritious food. We believe that telling one’s story is

On a triangle of land in the South Bronx, gardeners at the urban farm La Finca Del Sur are growing strawberries through the concrete. The farm sits at the middle of an urban jungle – Metro North and Amtrak roars on one side of the garden and a highway ramp on the other, while the enormous plane trees that grow on

Last week, as part of the Food Justice Voices Series, WhyHunger published the first ever Youth Food Justice Zine, which was created by 18 young authors and four social justice activists, one of whom was WhyHunger's Beatriz Beckford, Co-Director of the Grassroots Action Network. Beatriz's contributions included an Adult Ally Checklist, outlining how adults can support youth activism, in a meaningful way. You

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH). Photo credit: Robert Pluma In the Spanish municipal elections in May this year, a tide of social justice movements swept populist groups into local government. Cities across the country, including Barcelona and Madrid, saw unprecedented participation of everyday people in politics. On the eve of the elections, a delegation of 20 New York

“We can’t talk to youth about farms if they are disconnected from the land, and how do we create better school food without the voices of youth who use the program each and every day.” Beatriz Beckford, Co-Director, Grassroots Action Network at WhyHunger Beatriz is one of four social justice activists that have come together with eighteen young authors to