National
Right to Food
Community of Practice
We are a membership-based national coalition of advocates and organizations working to advance the right to food in our cities, towns, and states. Together, we develop solutions at the intersection of food and agriculture, public opinion, and systems change to end hunger for good, and make food a human right.
We host spaces for shared learning and provide support and capacity building to our members and partners. Our work is grounded in a human rights framework that addresses the root causes of hunger at the center of racial, housing, climate, land, and economic justice.
1-3pm EST, November 11, 2025
Join us as we gather with advocates and organizations across the United States and the world to reaffirm our commitment to international cooperation and processes that support the progressive realization of human rights.
Nearly half a century after the first food bank opened its doors and spread across the country, the U.S. has failed to solve its hunger problem. Meanwhile the food banking model is being exported to countries around the world, control over food production is increasingly consolidated, workers are exploited all along the food chain, racial injustice is further entrenched, and climate change is accelerating.
By simply defining the problem as hunger, the approaches to ameliorate it have been largely limited to increasing the availability of food by focusing on yields, access (capturing and distributing corporate food waste) and protecting eroding and underfunded government nutrition assistance programs.
