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Right to Food and Nutrition Watch: Peoples' Nutrition Is Not a Business
has just been released, shedding light on the control businesses have over food systems and policies. The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, a renowned annual civil society-led peer publication, launched at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, analyzes some of these key issues. Entitled "Peoples' Nutrition Is Not a Business," it puts nutrition under the spotlight, exposing the impact of business operations on peoples' livelihoods. Nutrition is assessed from a human rights perspective, going beyond the mere measurement of nutrients in food and human bodies and considering the socio-economic and cultural context in which human beings feed themselves. This year, WhyHunger staffer Jessica Powers has written an article for inclusion in the publication titled, "The Right to Food in the US: The Need to Move Away from Charity and Advance Towards a Human Rights Approach." In it, she discusses that frontline alternative approaches must also push for comprehensive and integrated food and agriculture policy to advance the right to adequate food and nutrition. Read it and more here.
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The Movement for Black Lives National Convening was held in Cleveland, Ohio at the end of July and was sponsored by local and national groups: Black Lives Matter, BYP 100, Ferguson Action, Cleveland Action,
WhyHunger's Beatriz Beckford was on site helping to lead a workshop on Building a National Agenda for Black Food and Land. The workshop discussed the need to center the ongoing land and food crisis in Black communities and the resistance to anti-Black racism within spaces where conversations about land and food are taking place. Read more about the workshop and the convening here.
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Rise Up! Organizing in Emergency Food Programs Guide
"You can choose to look away, but never again can you say you didn't know."
Why Organize?
When getting started with organizing, Tavia Benjamin, DC Place Matters Equity Fellow, advises to start where you are and look for skills in the people around you.
"Think about the relationships that already exist. Look for the natural leaders. Look for ways to develop leadership. At the end of the day, whether through informal conversations or community events, organizing is about relationships. The process of getting people together and on the same page is as important as the outcome."
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This issue of JAFSCD features commentaries on the topic of race and ethnicity in food systems work. One commentary states that food justice research and practice should move beyond inclusion to connect food system inequities to interlocking structures of oppression, such as capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonialism. The commentaries comment on a variety of important topics such as equity, community engagement, health activism, intersectionality, indigeneity, etc. Read the issue for free here.
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The campaign is running until November 25, 2015. The purpose of the campaign is to enable groups to run food drives that raise REAL Food - fruits and vegetables, locally grown produce, whole meals and other healthy food - instead of what traditional food drives raise - cans and boxes of non-perishable, processed food.
Amp Your Good has reinvented how food drives work with an online giving model called Crowd-feeding. Organizations use their crowd-feeding website to run their food drives. People who want to support a drive do it by purchasing the food they want to donate right on their website. They deliver the food directly to the food pantry, shelter or soup kitchen you are supporting.
If your organization is interested in running a REAL food drive this fall, learn how and become part of the campaign here.
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WhyHunger continues to expand the comprehensive Find Food database of emergency food providers (food banks, food pantries, food access sites) to include more information about healthy food and nutrition. We need your help! Please verify that your organization's profile is accurate in the database. We have new categories that will better capture the work that organizations are doing to better serve their communities, including addressing hunger and health. If you need to update your record, please email database@whyhunger.org. If your organization is not in the database, please join us here.
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Hungerthon 2015
We're gearing up for our biggest public outreach and fundraising campaign, Hungerthon, in November! This year marks the 30th year, so get ready to join WhyHunger this holiday season in fighting for everyone's right to healthy food through Hungerthon, the annual radio campaign to raise funds and awareness to fight hunger in America.
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Please verify that your organization's profile is accurate in the database. To update your record, email
database@whyhunger.org. If your organization is not in the database, please join us here.
Our Hotline number has changed to 1-800-5-HUNGRY. Please update your records and find outreach materials here. |
Nourishing Change is meant to encourage conversation and dialogue about transforming communities, community food security and the emergency food system. We want to hear from you! Email us at nourish@whyhunger.org
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Nourish Network for the Right to Food
WhyHunger
505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2100
New York, New York 10018
212-629-8850
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Contributors: Betty Fermin, Calondra McArthur and Jessica Powers.
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