Recently, Brooke Smith (Director of the Grassroots Action Network at WhyHunger), traveled with three of our partners—Don Bustos (NM), Alma Maquitico (TX) and Cesar Lopez (AZ) to learn and share with the Sonoran Desert Latino Food Justice Network. Conversations with leaders/activists/growers from Tucson down to the border town of Nogales, Mexico threaded through many layers of life and resistance in
27-06-2014
Gleaning with Ag Against Hunger in California. Photo by Jason Coate. With school food nutrition standards making the news lately and childhood obesity a major concern in U.S. food policy, nutrition education and farm-to-school programs are in the spotlight. Other institutions that run local procurement programs, such as hospitals, food banks and prisons, are often overlooked and get less media
26-06-2014
How can people in the borderlands be healthy and empowered when their communities are under attack? This question is at the core of cesar lopez’s “Dignity, Hope, Wellness and Action: Against All Odds in the Sonoran Desert,” the first publication in WhyHunger’s Food Justice Voices series. This thought-provoking piece goes beyond the issues of hunger, addressing the border region’s wide
25-06-2014
Recently, Brooke Smith (Director of the Grassroots Action Network at WhyHunger), traveled with three of our partners—Don Bustos (NM), Alma Maquitico (TX) and Cesar Lopez (AZ) to learn and share with the Sonoran Desert Latino Food Justice Network. Conversations with leaders/activists/growers from Tucson down to the border town of Nogales, Mexico threaded through many layers of life and resistance in
27-06-2014
Gleaning with Ag Against Hunger in California. Photo by Jason Coate. With school food nutrition standards making the news lately and childhood obesity a major concern in U.S. food policy, nutrition education and farm-to-school programs are in the spotlight. Other institutions that run local procurement programs, such as hospitals, food banks and prisons, are often overlooked and get less media
26-06-2014
How can people in the borderlands be healthy and empowered when their communities are under attack? This question is at the core of cesar lopez’s “Dignity, Hope, Wellness and Action: Against All Odds in the Sonoran Desert,” the first publication in WhyHunger’s Food Justice Voices series. This thought-provoking piece goes beyond the issues of hunger, addressing the border region’s wide
25-06-2014