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Check them out – Food What?!’s Annual Strawberry Blast!
Do you have a youth program? Are you looking for ways to engage and empower youth using food? Check out Food What?! in Santa Cruz, California. Over 300 youth participated in this year’s annual youth-organized Strawberry Blast! Read all about it here.  
03-06-2011
New Resource: USDA Introduces the Food Desert Locator
In May the USDA introduced a new tool to help communities, city planners, researchers and policy makers locate “food deserts” in their own backyards.  The Food Desert Locator is an online mapping tool that highlights areas classified as “food deserts” across the country.  To use the map, enter the locator and zoom in to get a closer look.  Click on
02-06-2011
WhyHunger heads West!
WhyHunger recently paid a visit to the good people of the Central Coast School Food Alliance in Santa Cruz County. Read our postings for details of the visit and the partnership, and follow our path in pictures in the full photo gallery...  
01-06-2011
Food Voices: Maintaining a Space
An installment in the "Food Voices" series taking a look at community supported fisheries.
01-06-2011
Food Voices: Bringing Food to the Table
Stories from Florida on the challenges faced by farmworkers.
25-05-2011
A Community’s Health Ultimately Depends on their Soil
Yonnette Fleming is a long-time WhyHunger partner and Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award winner. Based in NYC, her work at Hattie Carthan Community Market in Brooklyn, New York has inspired community members for over six years. The garden "advances community resilience to the issues of food insecurity and health disparities evident in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood by adding nutrition awareness and food
24-05-2011
On the Road in Milwaukee, WI: Working Together to Build Community Power
For over 35 years WhyHunger has been documenting and promoting the amazing work of community-based groups across the country, spotlighting model programs and best practices.  This year WhyHunger and Growing Power have teamed up to launch the Community Learning Project for Food Justice, a new initiative to build relationships, leadership, and resource capacity development to support community based learning in
23-05-2011
On the Road in Northern California: Nutrition Banking Is In; Food Banking Is Out
An article about Second Harvest's efforts in nutrition education.
23-05-2011
Food Voices: The Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil
WhyHunger is pleased to be partnering with Andrianna Natsoulas, long-time food sovereignty activist and author of the forthcoming book Food Voices: Stories of the Food Sovereignty Movement.  For the past year, Andrianna has been on a journey across the Americas to capture the stories of people working towards and living a just and sustainable food system. Below is the latest
19-05-2011
Food Voices: Land and Dignity
An installment of the "Food Voices" series focusing on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil.
19-05-2011
Check them out – Food What?!’s Annual Strawberry Blast!
Do you have a youth program? Are you looking for ways to engage and empower youth using food? Check out Food What?! in Santa Cruz, California. Over 300 youth participated in this year’s annual youth-organized Strawberry Blast! Read all about it here.  
03-06-2011
New Resource: USDA Introduces the Food Desert Locator
In May the USDA introduced a new tool to help communities, city planners, researchers and policy makers locate “food deserts” in their own backyards.  The Food Desert Locator is an online mapping tool that highlights areas classified as “food deserts” across the country.  To use the map, enter the locator and zoom in to get a closer look.  Click on
02-06-2011
WhyHunger heads West!
WhyHunger recently paid a visit to the good people of the Central Coast School Food Alliance in Santa Cruz County. Read our postings for details of the visit and the partnership, and follow our path in pictures in the full photo gallery...  
01-06-2011
Food Voices: Maintaining a Space
An installment in the "Food Voices" series taking a look at community supported fisheries.
01-06-2011
Food Voices: Bringing Food to the Table
Stories from Florida on the challenges faced by farmworkers.
25-05-2011
A Community’s Health Ultimately Depends on their Soil
Yonnette Fleming is a long-time WhyHunger partner and Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award winner. Based in NYC, her work at Hattie Carthan Community Market in Brooklyn, New York has inspired community members for over six years. The garden "advances community resilience to the issues of food insecurity and health disparities evident in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood by adding nutrition awareness and food
24-05-2011
On the Road in Milwaukee, WI: Working Together to Build Community Power
For over 35 years WhyHunger has been documenting and promoting the amazing work of community-based groups across the country, spotlighting model programs and best practices.  This year WhyHunger and Growing Power have teamed up to launch the Community Learning Project for Food Justice, a new initiative to build relationships, leadership, and resource capacity development to support community based learning in
23-05-2011
On the Road in Northern California: Nutrition Banking Is In; Food Banking Is Out
An article about Second Harvest's efforts in nutrition education.
23-05-2011
Food Voices: The Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil
WhyHunger is pleased to be partnering with Andrianna Natsoulas, long-time food sovereignty activist and author of the forthcoming book Food Voices: Stories of the Food Sovereignty Movement.  For the past year, Andrianna has been on a journey across the Americas to capture the stories of people working towards and living a just and sustainable food system. Below is the latest
19-05-2011
Food Voices: Land and Dignity
An installment of the "Food Voices" series focusing on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil.
19-05-2011