You are invited to join WhyHunger, The Point and the NYC Community Garden Coalition (NYC CGC) for our event on Friday, April 17th from 5:30-7:00pm to celebrate the International Day of Peasant Struggle and the launch of WhyHunger's Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty Into Action publication. This event will be held at The Point in Bronx, NY and will feature noted panelists from

Continuing WhyHunger’s Food Justice Voices series, is “Social Justice for Lunch: Delta Fresh Foods Initiative at the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference.” This piece explores the work of the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative (DFFI) to transform the food system in the Mississippi Delta region into one that is more equitable and just for all. Social Justice for Lunch gives insight

Oscar Otzoy In honor of National Farm Worker Awareness Week, WhyHunger is featuring a story from Community Voices, a storytelling site that amplifies the voices of grassroots leaders and organizations across the country to demonstrate how small acts of food sovereignty happening across the country add up to a powerful, vital collective. Oscar Otzoy came to the United States in

WhyHunger is proud to release its first agroecology publication, “Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty into Action.” Agroecology is an agricultural method based on the traditional knowledge of those who cultivate the land and a way of life. We believe its practice is critical to addressing global hunger and increasing communities’ access to basic resources such as land, water and seeds. The

Fight for farmworkers' rights by attending CIW’s Concert & Parade for Fair Food on Saturday, March 21st in St. Petersburg, Florida. Like many of history’s most powerful grassroots movements for change, the movement for Fair Food has been driven by art and music. Theater, music, murals, and puppets rooted in the diverse cultural traditions of the Fair Food Nation have always brought