Food policy councils are emerging as a resource that brings together food activists, community members, urban planners, and local, municipal and state governments as partners in creating local food initiatives.

By Alison Cohen, WhyHunger’s Senior Director of Programs. “Their courage [those whose rights were most egregiously violated] came not from faith in UN documents but from something experienced deep within themselves: the rights and dignity inherent in their very being and in the being of all. This is the real source of the power of human rights.” Larry Cox, co-director